Grand resource usage in Docker environment

[Jurrer]

Hi
I am from-time-to-time user. My tree is rather small and incomplete.

For a web app with api, Grampsweb is consuming enormous resources.
I'd like to enquiry,
How are the docker images built? Is it possible to use a lighter alpine image perhaps?
I couldn't dig a source of mysterious image FROM dmstraub/gramps:5.1.6 too.

As for my deduction techniques,
I found out by sorting /var/lib/docker/overlay2 folder, where two biggest directories belonged to Gramps
(among ~50 containers)

root@host:/var/lib/docker/overlay2# du -hs * | sort -rh | head -2
2.1G	ed58b6c14946392bfbad5985751544fb226d2622b0baccb63e0819bc2ea5f538
2.1G	29e390349624261964f1ddc1ce34988636ab7267b343c393da5d4298a7543719

That's ~4.2G!

On another note, mounted volumes didn't take much space.

BUT

Much worse revelation was finding out that idling app is consuming >1.5G of RAM!

Don't take me the wrong way. I love the app. Love the idea. Love to connect with my family.

I'd just like to open a dialog in regards to optimizations.
Off the top of my head maybe support for external postgres DB?
More modular approach?
Let me know what you think.

[DavidMStraub]

Hi,

• Source of the "mysterious" image: https://github.com/DavidMStraub/gramps-docker, https://hub.docker.com/r/dmstraub/gramps
• Resource usage: https://www.grampsweb.org/cpu-limited/ (that also applies to RAM, each gunicorn worker consumes a fixed amount even when idle)
• Postgres: https://www.grampsweb.org/Postgres/ but note that this will not reduce resource usage and not speed up your app
• Large docker blobs: not much to say unless you specify what that is. Could be simply the debian base image layer.

Most of the issues you describe have nothing to do with Gramps Web, but with Docker or Gunicorn.

Converting to discussion.

[nothing2obvi]

I'm wondering the same thing....Out of all of my apps, even without limits placed on resources, Grampsweb takes up the most resources, which is very surprising.