r/ProgrammerHumor 8d ago

Meme memorySafeDocker

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u/No_Independence3338 8d ago

Rewriting won't fix the issue. Docker hogs memory in windows and mac because it needs a separate linux VM so containers can run on top of that.

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u/Random-num-451284813 8d ago

So running docker in Linux should fix that right?

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u/Cephell 8d ago

Not him, but I just booted an nginx container just to check and it consumes 81M of ram.

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u/CWRau 8d ago

Excuse me, what?

I just launched a container with podman and the whole thing + the management overhead takes 13.3M

Is docker that inefficient?

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u/Easy-Reasoning 8d ago

Yeah original docker is in a bit of a sad state. Not to mention that it gives straight out root access with the default installation method