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supernestoday at 6:45 AM5 repliesview on HN

Tried it on Fedora 43 (6.19.11 x86_64) and it loaded all CPU cores, dumped 50K lines in the journal and failed to start.

> Error: the BPF_PROG_LOAD syscall returned Argument list too long (os error 7).

> littlesnitch.service: Consumed 3min 38.832s CPU time, 13.7G memory peak.


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littlesnitchtoday at 9:52 AM

Sorry, we have not tested on Fedora before release. Did not expect so much interest in the first hours after release...

I have now installed Fedora in a VM (ARM64 architecture, though) and it does load, but cannot identify processes. I'm investigating this now.

The other issue seems to be with eBPF compatibility. That's a moving target and I'll investigate next. But resources are limited, I'll need some time to dig into this.

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pixelat3dtoday at 11:54 AM

From the download page on the website:

"Note: Little Snitch version 1.0.0 does not currently work with the Btrfs file system! Btrfs is used by default on Fedora, so Little Snitch does not currently identify processes on Fedora. We are working on an 1.0.1 release to fix the issue as soon as possible!"

whilenot-devtoday at 7:58 AM

Someone already created an issue for it: https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux/issues/1

S0undtoday at 7:58 AM

I was looking for a comment like yours. Same issue, in my case only eating up half of my cores but with 100% utilization, webUI not working.

aucisson_masquetoday at 8:44 AM

Your average Linux experience.

And the second most upvoted comment is someone seriously asking if 2026 if the year of Linux desktop...

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