I’m very glad that I changed my old one to this model.īut in the case of Docker, there is no simple answer to that question. It is fast, quiet and it is not getting too warm even on a high load. You can feel the difference right away, in any aspect. There is no doubt that the MacBook with the new Apple M1 Pro chip with ARM architecture is a very powerful machine. Is it worth buying a new MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon? But first, let’s have a look at changes in my setup. Wondering how it impacted Docker performance? Bear with me. I changed a few things since that time, I changed my VPS, and what is most important, I changed my MacBook Pro to a new model. My final decision for 2021 was to use external VPS, although the approach with mutagen seemed promising. In this article I am going to consider different volume configurations (default, cached, delegated) for Docker on Mac, using Docker on VPS, and mutagen (as a solution for files synchronization with Docker). In my previous article I made a comprehensive approach to finding the best option for those, who do not want to replace their Apple computers with anything else but still are forced to use Docker.

Probably there are also people who decided to replace their MacBooks with Linux based computers. In many cases, it performs so badly that we are forced to look for different, alternative solutions. The latter is 8 bytes on a 64-bit system, which confirms that observed memory difference of 8 x 10 = 80MB makes sense.Running Docker on Apple MacBook computers has been a common problem for many developers since the beginning. If you look at V8's source code ( Array::New, Heap::AllocateRawFixedArray, FixedArray::SizeFor), then you'll see that the memory used by an array is a fixed value plus the length multiplied by the size of a pointer. In this simple example, you can see that allocating an array of 10M elements consumers approximately 80MB (take a look at heapUsed). Here is an example from in Node v0.12.2 on a 64-bit system: $ node -expose-gc The built-in process module has a method memoryUsage that offers insight in the memory usage of the current Node.js process.

Memory allocated to docker on mac