in my experience (at least rootless) podman does enforce resource limits much better/stricter we had some similar issues and it was due to containers running o

in my experience (at least rootless) podman does enforce resource limits much better/stricter we had some similar issues and it was due to containers running out of resources (mainly RAM/memory, by a lot, but only for a small amount of time). And it happens that in rootless this was correctly detected and enforced, but on non rootless docker (in that case on a Mac dev laptop) it didn't detect this resource spikes and hence "happened to work" even through it shouldn't have.