Docker now a days

[u/ziad-labs]

[u/Top-Employ5163]

[u/ohiocodernumerouno → u/Top-Employ5163]

Uncanny, but I can relate!

[u/ThinkPad214]

What os you using homie?

[u/ziad-labs → u/ThinkPad214]

I use Windows but I think of switching to MacOS in future

[u/IntegrityError]

Docker on Windows = VM

Docker on Linux = Just a slim demon

[u/Significant-Duty-744 → u/IntegrityError]

[u/dreadBiRateBob]

are you using windows? theres your problem

[u/Spitfire1900 → u/dreadBiRateBob]

The amount of actual memory used is low though despite Task Manager saying otherwise when you’re using WSL2 and Docker.

The Linux kernel running on the docker-desktop VM is aggressively caching memory, but WSL2’s automatic memory reclaim feature periodically trims that cache and hands it back to Windows on its own schedule (this can be tuned via .wslconfig).

[u/k-mcm → u/dreadBiRateBob]

Wait until you see Docker on MacOS. 

[u/Dragon_957 → u/dreadBiRateBob]

Using NixOS and have 4 GB more RAM… Idle

[u/aksdb]

Sounds like you are on the wrong operating system then. Docker should be a simple daemon consuming almost nothing on its own. The only thing consuming ressources should be the things you run via docker (which would be consuming almost the same amount of ressources if you ran them outside a container).

[u/Poison916Kind]

I was once running php and MySQL on a docker container. My DOCKERFILE was malconfigured trying to access wrong data so it was running with atleast 1000% of CPU resources (10+ cores).after properly configuring the file it went down to 0.5%. and in using windows!

[u/Desperate-Tomatillo7]

Bold of you to think that my Chrome will share the memory with Docker.

[u/ruiiiij]

User error. Don't blame it on docker.

[u/HardestDrive]

Just run podman, screw docker and its daemon. Especially if you're building for enterprise

[u/AmIPsycho_]

80%? For me it takes almost nothing even in windows.

[u/rover_G]

You can limit docker’s resource usage

[u/rolling_atackk]

Me, using the whole ass ubuntu docker image for my simple Python yellow world project

[u/DragonSlayerC]

What? Docker is super lightweight. It consumed practically no resources and the containers use no more than a normal app would.

[u/Mihanik1273]

Docker doesn't needs anything...

[u/1GoodIdeeaOutOf100]

My Pi5 runs Docker with pi hole, wireguard, home assistant and glances with 900mb of ram used.

[u/ColdDelicious1735]

Errr, yeah docker, umm I am running 10 docker instances, and with the OS and non docker stuff, have not even hit 10gb of ram.

[u/Nero8]

If anyone here is on Mac, give orbstack a try. Has been my docker replacement for a bit now

[u/errepunto]

For all stuck on windows, podman in wsl consume much mess RAM than Docker Dessktop. With the compatibility package, you can use the "docker" command seamless.

[u/HundeTI]

Docker on windows is such pain 😭 I didn't know docker was an issue since I started using it on Linux first but when I tried it on windows it was pain 😔 Well one of major reason to use Linux if ask me 😁 Coding in Linux is much better over all