Hi Dor, On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:21 AM Dor Laor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Waldek, can you please describe what's your motivation in shrinking > the size of the kernel? Compared for example to modern RAM and also > to the JVM that many times will be there, the current size is already > 'small enough', isn't it? > Not necessarily if the lifetime of a VM is in the order of, say, hundreds of milliseconds. My understanding is that these extreme optimizations to reduce size are motivated by the emergence of light-weight VMs, which allow cloud providers to launch VMs on-demand for a group of service requests. This allows them to more efficiently utilize the hardware because an idle VM still consumes some resources. And in any case, smaller image size anyway means shorter boot time and more packing of VMs per node. - Pekka -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSv Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osv-dev/CAGUyND_KXX5AoEzGdwrPTnz_7ihxo95AH4uA7i7Nnsptn%3D6vPA%40mail.gmail.com.
