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Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017) by tpetry on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:29AM (#40354490)
LightVM is stating a VM creation of 2.3ms while Firecracker states 125ms of time from VM creation to a working user space. So this comparing apples and oranges.
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Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017) by fhuici on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @09:44AM (#40355178)
The 125ms is using Linux. Using a unikernel and tweaking Firecracker a bit (on KraftCloud) we can get, for example, 20 millis cold starts for NGINX, and have features on the way to reduce this further.
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Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017) by imtringued on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @03:29PM (#40359135)
I know it's cool to talk about these insane numbers, but from what I can tell people have AWS lambdas that boot slower than this to the point where people send warmup calls just to be sure. What exactly warrants the ability to start a VM this quickly?
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