How does Docker affect energy consumption?
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Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#2It would be awesome if the comparisons would include tests of Linux in a VM. Does anyone have such data? (bare Linux vs. Docker vs. VM)
Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#3Note The Register's take on this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/docker_docks_wallets...
which I posted separately a little earlier.
Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#4Who'd have thought that an additional layer of abstraction has a small impact on performance. Nothing else in computers work that way.
Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#5Note The Register's take on this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/docker_docks_wallets... which I posted separately a little earlier.
They just say that "the energy trade-off between containerization and enabling TLS/SSL is comparable for PostgreSQL" and quote the lead on this research, Abram Hindle: "If your expenses are people, then Docker is probably worth the hit".
Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#6It would be awesome if the comparisons would include tests of Linux in a VM. Does anyone have such data? (bare Linux vs. Docker vs. VM)
I would be interested in seeing VM hypervisors (Xen, QEMU etc) and also power consumption for rkt.
Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#7Sort of related: mongodb seems to use a fair bit of energy as well on Ubuntu linux.
Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#8Who'd have thought that an additional layer of abstraction has a small impact on performance. Nothing else in computers work that way.
Great - you've made a hypothesis using your intuition. It seems like it's probably true. The science part is then checking that this it actually is, rather than just assuming, which is what this paper is.
Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#9Who'd have thought that an additional layer of abstraction has a small impact on performance. Nothing else in computers work that way.
Your criticism would make sense if the title of the article was "Does Docker affect energy consumption?".
However, the article is titled "How does Docker effect energy consumption."
It is about an experiment which aims to quantify the impact on performance, which is quite interesting.
Re: How does Docker affect energy consumption?
#10Why not measure just processor load?