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That's interesting, but shouldn't containers (e.g.: docker/lxc) be almost as fast as native at disk I/O? I mean that's basically why I moved my self hosted vir

That's interesting, but shouldn't containers (e.g.: docker/lxc) be almost as fast as native at disk I/O? I mean that's basically why I moved my self hosted virtual servers from KVM, which was abysmal on regular desktop spinning disks, to LXC/Docker which is comparably fast to native -- plus I can fit a lot more containers than full VMs.

sytse 10y ago
The problem is that on MacOS you have to run containers in a virtual machine since you're not running on Linux. Crossing the VM boundary with IO can be slow, especially on virtualbox.
- emilburzo 10y ago
  Oh, I'm not using MacOS so I didn't know that. It makes a lot more sense now, thanks!