vmtouch VS dive

VMTouch may be helpful. https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/

Just lock the file into memory using:

```vmtouch -l /path/to/binary```

You're claiming that gnome loads all of itself into memory so that it can be faster. Now there are a few reasons why I don't think that's a reasonable idea, but assuming that you wanted that... using techniques like vmtouch to keep the files in the disk cache would make it so that gnome wasn't actually using the full 1GB. The "cached" files could be evicted from the cache if some other program needed that memory. Where as loading all of gnome in at startup regardless of whether it's actually used is probably not a good idea.

It is a mainstream thing. It's enabled by default on every Windows install, as far as I know, although you may not be impressed by its understanding of what your frequently opened programs are. It's been about ten years since I ran Windows, but I used to have a batch script to read everything in a directory so that it would be in the disk cache and subsequent accesses would come from RAM. The Linux equivalent of my script is vmtouch, although that's a lot more full-featured.

vmtouch: https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/

vmtouch.

Cool, gonna try this soon. Would be great to use in combination with Dive (https://github.com/wagoodman/dive)

Dive is an open-source tool that allows you to explore the various layers of a Docker image. It shows you the content of each layer and helps you identify voluminous or unnecessary parts.

Dive is a great tool for debugging this. I like image reduction work just because it gives me a chance to play with Dive: https://github.com/wagoodman/dive

One easy low hanging fruit I see a LOT for ballooning image sizes is people including the kitchen sink SDK/CLI for their cloud provider (like AWS or GCP), when they really only need 1/100 of that. The full versions of both of these tools are several hundred mb each

This post is going to be shorter. I'd like to highlight a tool that I really enjoy working with called "Dive" It is an essential tool when working to build and optimize docker containers.

Whether you work with Docker regularly or even create your own Docker containers, Dive is a great tool for streamlining image sizes, potentially helping you save storage costs and speed up deployments.