I’m on a M2 Macbook Pro using the Dev Container setup . Memory usage seems really high, is this typical? I see about 4GB memory usage before running anything, then needing about 10GB to get through a successful build and the full app running at about 8GB.

Now it’s down around 6GB after restarting all the things, so I am going to assume that is “typical” and blame any more than that on a possible memory leak somewhere in the dev stack (probably Docker Desktop).

Before the official Dev Container config was shared, I had my own devcontainer.json that didn’t use the discourse_dev base image. It uses only 2GB RAM at rest and 6GB while running Discourse, so I’m curious what the difference could be. base image: mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:debian-12 wi…

The official image aims to simplify development by bundling everything needed to run Discourse seamlessly, at the cost of higher memory requirements, and your custom setup seems to have a fine-grained control over versions and installed libraries.

[image] Jahan Gagan: at the cost of higher memory requirements Are you also seeing the dev image using about 8-10GB RAM?

Dev Container memory usage really high?

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dsims (Daniel) March 5, 2025, 12:12am 4

Are you also seeing the dev image using about 8-10GB RAM?

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