Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS

Re:Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS by sqlcommando on Sunday November 27, 2022 @11:51PM (#33769936)

I dunno about the m1 aspect of this but postgres and redis for typical dev work shouldn't require more than a gigabyte or two of RAM when running together. 32-64GB is more like heavy traffic enterprise DB territory...

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Re:Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS by dijit on Monday November 28, 2022 @12:39AM (#33770168)

guess the parent is annoyed at spending 2-3GiB of ram on the VM itself.

even if the containers themselves only use 128MiB total: the VM will cordon off everything it's told to; which most people are unlikely to change until there's an issue, and is configurable down to 1GiB as a minimum.

FWIW Docker Desktop on my machine (M2 Macbook Air; 24GiB Ram) defaulted to using 8GiB of RAM.

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Re:Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS by rch on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:42AM (#33770447)

They're also trivial to install without virtualization. Postgres has been one of the first things I install on a new laptop for over a decade now.

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