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The OP means the creation time of a Linux "container" is less than 10ms, ie the time for the system calls you need to create the namespaces and cgroups. While y
by justincormack 12y ago
The OP means the creation time of a Linux "container" is less than 10ms, ie the time for the system calls you need to create the namespaces and cgroups. While you can boot a unikernel from nothing in that time.
- zobzu 12y agoActually, I meant booting! Had to look for it in the HN history, look at this guy's implementation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SxLvz6pcGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SxLvz6pcGs ~30ms here, the post indicates some kind of intel NUC (so not exactly the fastest thing) The syscalls themselves are probably sub-millisecond