i think i can safely say that my life has become noticeably better without docker
big server that always had a load average between 20 and 200 is now around 2
with more stuff on it
@val not sure
i imagine a mix of added context switches, and the userland proxies
@angristan @CobaltVelvet mastodon.social is gone from it
@gargron @angristan that did a lot too but it still was awful just before i removed docker
@CobaltVelvet @angristan ohhhh, docker
as a non-server-doer, I have no context for these numbers, and it's wonderful.
hmm, yes, 200, that's a lot of 1s. 200 of them, in fact! and 20 is still a lot, too, but a much smaller lot!
ooh, 2! that's, what, only 2 1s? and with more things making 1s? :O this is astounding!
@chao well yeah that's the point of those numbers, a way to abstract "load" :p
technically it's something like the average number of processes that use the CPU in some time, and the usual rule of thumb is that it shouldn't be higher than the number of cpu threads (for that server that would be 8)
anyway 200 is huge, 20 is a lot, 2 is very reasonable :p
ah, that makes sense! :D
and it's clearly a very good abstraction, because my interpretation of it based on two toots fits quite well! ^_^
@CobaltVelvet How the hell does docker increase the load?