25 Nov
2023
25 Nov
'23
6:40 p.m.
On 25 Nov 2023, at 18:25, Paul Tansom via BitFolk
Users <users(a)mailman.bitfolk.com> wrote:
Does anyone else use Docker on their VPS and if so what spec is it running on? I'm
migrating to a new one to upgrade to 64bit and decided to try Docker. It has worked pretty
well on my local servers, none massively powerful, but in spite of being told the overhead
of multiple copies of things isn't much of an impact it seems I have obliterated the
capability of my VPS barely half way through the process, with htop registering both swap
and physical memory maxed out.
I have a couple of VPSs at minimum spec (other than disk space), both running docker in a
swarm. I have about 40 containers running over the swarm very comfortably. With the
exception of a few standard logistical containers (nginx reverse proxy, redis, etc.) the
vast majority are small, specialised micro-services that I have written.
If you are having issues I would suggest it is more likely to be the containers themselves
rather than Docker in general. I don’t run anything like Wordpress.
Regards,
Chris
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Chris Smith <space.dandy(a)icloud.com>