Norm MikotoDevs should really grab an old netbook from ebay with an atom cpu and 1-2GB of ram and see how well their new React app works on that
Joshua M. Clulow@mikoto I wonder how easy it is to arrange for the same thing in a virtual machine; constrained RAM and disk capacity is obviously easy, as well as picking a fixed small resolution for the virtual framebuffer, but CPU and network and storage _speed_ seems somewhat more difficult to control on desktop hypervisors.
@jmc you could limit CPU time, also there are full emulators like 86box that can emulate Pentium II and earlier CPUs, though you do need good single core performance
@mikoto Yeah. I know how I would limit CPU usage on illumos systems, and I assume something comparable exists on Linux with cgroups -- but I wonder about how easy that is to do on, say, a Mac.
Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@jmc @mikoto If I assume this is about the original context of:
> I wonder how easy it is to arrange for the same thing in a virtual machine
Then at least on VirtualBox you have the option to put on a cap on the emulated processor speed, surely there's similar options for other hypervisors?
Sadly I've no idea if there's an option to slow down network and storage 