Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of V8 isolates?
by ec109685 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:56PM
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Containers _are_ a mechanism to increase to compute granularity. Some of our workloads were having trouble scaling to 128 cores, and by using containers, we can have more of them running with fewer cpu's. Furthermore, it's straightforward to support providing burst capacity to applications running within a container, given all the OS needs to do is to give those cgroups some extra CPU time for a limited time.
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> Containers _are_ a mechanism to increase to compute granularity. Some of our workloads were having trouble scaling to 128 cores, and by using containers, we can have more of them running with fewer cpu's.
As opposed to having VMs? Otherwise, I don't see how containers can increase granularity.
As opposed to the original comment that says they aren’t useful for increasing granularity.
It sounds like containers enabled you to manage the deployment of multiple processes on a single machine more easily which doesn't contradict the comment you're replying to. Would it not have been possible without containers?