Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
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Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
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Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#2I don't understand why more people don't use Solaris Zones, they seem to me to be the superior solution by far, and with work done by Joyent you now have modern LX-branded zones also. Is the lack of adoption mainly due to the fact that it's Solaris, and not Linux?
(Solaris lives on in Illumos et al)
Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#3I don't understand why more people don't use Solaris Zones, they seem to me to be the superior solution by far, and with work done by Joyent you now have modern LX-branded zones also. Is the lack of adoption mainly due to the fact that it's Solaris, and not Linux? (Solaris lives on in Illumos et al)
Solaris is not free software and the free software forks never gained much traction. Plus it is now also associated with Oracle which brings along a lot of extra distrust, particularly given how litigious they are.
Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#4I don't understand why more people don't use Solaris Zones, they seem to me to be the superior solution by far, and with work done by Joyent you now have modern LX-branded zones also. Is the lack of adoption mainly due to the fact that it's Solaris, and not Linux? (Solaris lives on in Illumos et al)
Last I used Illumos it had pretty poor hardware support (at least at entry to midlevel hardware which for obvious reasons must be a less important priority). I also ran into issues with their KVM port; mainly panics with various linux kernels (kvm clock, virt*, ..). Good experience in general though, especially the zones/zfs/kvm combo.
Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#5on osx, i know for a fact Docker for OSX is pretty darn slow due to its way they handle filesystem.
but using Dinghy greatly helped sped everything up due to it using nfs. just in case anyone wanted to know.
Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#6on osx, i know for a fact Docker for OSX is pretty darn slow due to its way they handle filesystem. but using Dinghy greatly helped sped everything up due to it using nfs. just in case anyone wanted to know.
It can't be worse than the way they handle the filesystem on Windows. I can't even get events (e.g. watching for changes) to work on volumes.
Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#7on osx, i know for a fact Docker for OSX is pretty darn slow due to its way they handle filesystem. but using Dinghy greatly helped sped everything up due to it using nfs. just in case anyone wanted to know.
Hadn't heard of Dinghy before. Thanks!
Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#8I don't understand why more people don't use Solaris Zones, they seem to me to be the superior solution by far, and with work done by Joyent you now have modern LX-branded zones also. Is the lack of adoption mainly due to the fact that it's Solaris, and not Linux? (Solaris lives on in Illumos et al)
Because Linux userspace probably works best on the Linux kernel?
Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#9on osx, i know for a fact Docker for OSX is pretty darn slow due to its way they handle filesystem. but using Dinghy greatly helped sped everything up due to it using nfs. just in case anyone wanted to know.
docker-sync (http://docker-sync.io/) is another option that helps resolve filesystem issues on macOS.
Re: Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
#10Isn't this kind of thing part of the reason why you log to stdout instead of handling disk writes in your app?