fig_11_compare-min-mem

Minimum memory needed for varying applications on varying frameworks

From the paper, "in order to understand how many unikernel VMs we could pack on a single server when RAM is a bottleneck, we ran experiments to measure the minimum amount of memory required to boot various applications as unikernels, finding that 2-6MBs of memory suffice for Unikraft guests."

Usage

Run instructions:

• ./genimages.sh downloads and builds the tested images anm takes about 2m on average;
• ./benchmark.sh runs the experiment and takes about 6m30s in average; and
• ./plot.py is used to generate the figure.