On 27/02/20 21:49, Rich Freeman wrote: > A fairly cheap amd64 system can run a ton of services in containers > though, and it is way simpler to maintain that way. I still get quick > access to snapshots/etc, but now if I want to run a gentoo container > it is no big deal if 99% of the time it uses 25MB of RAM and 1% of one > core, but once a month it needs 4GB of RAM and 100% of 6 cores. As > long as I'm not doing an emerge -u world on half a dozen containers at > once it is no big deal at all.
Do all your containers have the same make options etc? Can't remember which directory it is, but I had a shared emerge directory where it stored this stuff and I emerged with -bk options (use binary if it's there, create binary if it isn't). That way, when I updated my systems, I updated the "big grunt" system first, then the smaller ones, so the little ones didn't have to emerge anything other than what was unique to them. Cheers, Wol
