A comparison between OSv unikernels and Docker containers as building blocks for an Internet of Things platform

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Waldek Kozaczuk

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Sep 14, 2020, 2:01:22 PM9/14/20

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An interesting and very informative paper about OSv by Vinicius Fraga - https://repositorio.ufpe.br/bitstream/123456789/35372/1/DISSERTA%c3%87%c3%83O%20Vin%c3%adcius%20Matos%20da%20Silveira%20Fraga.pdf.

One of the observations the author makes is that OSv consumes lots of memory comparing to the containers. I think it is to a great extent caused by the lack of support of "lazy"/on-demand application stacks - https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/issues/143.

I sent the patch addressing it at the beginning of the year and needs a review - https://groups.google.com/g/osv-dev/c/tZnwiScmjZY/m/GkY0hV9EAwAJ - but I am not sure if it still applies.