James Kingdon Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Hi, I hit a problem on pinebook where docker would hang with defunct processes consuming high cpu. A bit of googling turned up a known problem with aufs as the cause, so I grabbed the patches, combined them and created a pull request https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/772 I gave the resulting kernel a fairly good work-out this evening and it seems to be working fine now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlad59 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 You're using mainline kernel or legacy ? If you're using mainline Overlay2 is a better choice, isn't it ? I'm using it for months (more than a year even) without any problem with A20 board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Kingdon Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 5 hours ago, vlad59 said: You're using mainline kernel or legacy ? If you're using mainline Overlay2 is a better choice, isn't it ? Legacy. I haven't had a chance to try mainline on the pinebook yet (which would be an interesting thing to do), but my understanding is that it isn't ready for desktop/gui use yet. As far as aufs vs Overlay2 goes, I read enough to realise there's a lot of political stuff around the adoption into the kernel and newer distributions, but I haven't seen any technical comparisons of the two. Apart from the bug above, aufs seems to have been working extremely well, but I guess if the momentum now is behind overlay2 then that's the direction we will all be going in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlad59 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Sorry I have missed you were using a pinebook. I'm use mainline on a Pine64 and it's working fine but I'm not using any desktop / gui About aufs vs Overlay2 : when I was still using my SDCard as storage for my docker containers (one year ago), I had a lot of performance problem with aufs -> using overlay2 solved most of it. Back I was reading this site and it convinced me https://github.com/chriskuehl/docker-storage-benchmark But I'm not selling anything, if it works good enought don't touch it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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