Re: [Publicity] Clear Containers - Intel's KVM/KVMTool based container distro - what are the implications?

[Richard Mortier <richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 May 2015 at 17:19, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To provide a preview of the results: we can launch such a secured container
> that uses virtualization technology in under 150 milliseconds, and the
> per-container memory overhead is roughly 18 to 20MB (this means you can run
> over 3500 of these on a server with 128GB of RAM).
>
> ---
>
> I am wondering how the typical unikernel compares in terms of start-up time
> and memory overhead.

Define "typical" :)

For MirageOS, I think those are comparable, though MirageOS can go
lower in terms of memory use (16MiB used in NSDI'15; on-disk size of a
presentation unikernel typically under 10MB -- NSDI'15 presentation
claims 2MB) and faster in terms of startup (20-30ms claimed on x86 in
the NSDI'15 paper, and 30-45ms claimed in the presentation -- Anil, is
there really a discrepancy?).

-- 
Richard Mortier
richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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