Comment by stingraycharles
6 days ago
This comment doesn’t seem very substantive.
Care to elaborate why exactly this is such a bad implementation of containers?
Seems like a more secure implementation than Docker Engine, and if - as I pressure - memory management is automatic, then it will be pretty great to use.
> and if - as I pressure [presume?] - memory management is automatic
Why would it be? Nothing in the Linux kernel properly supports that on a VM level (ballooning only goes in one direction, and even that only on a good day), and if Apple had managed to solve that particular Gordian knot they would've told people.
Isn’t memory management somewhat automatic on WSL2? Isn’t that the same problem?
I've yet to see it actually work reliably, but YMMV. Either way there doesn't seem to be any indication of a similar feature attempt for Apple's runtime - since containers are meant to be restarted regularly, they might just not bother with wasting time on that feature.