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Fix for this issue has already been published. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7839#issuecomment-3...

comment by traeficc · 2026-01-30 · in Docker 4.58 CPU spiking to high values by running lsof

looks to be this: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7527#issuecomment-2...

comment by jey · 2025-01-16 · in Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week

Judging from the script linked here ( https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7527 ), Docker’s Developer ID cert was revoked by Apple. Are…they going to explain why/how that happened?

comment by mrpippy · 2025-01-16 · in Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week

…) will try again with sockets/TCP, thought i hit a roadblock after reading https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5263#issuecomment-7...

comment by jareklupinski · 2025-01-02 · in Developing inside a virtual machine

14.4 seems to be breaking Docker desktop for some uses too https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7220

comment by rectalogic · 2024-03-19 · in USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update

…support interferes with other applications (like OpenVPN and the Xbox Game Center) [2]. [0] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1432 [1] https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/599 [2] https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/1976

comment by maccard · 2023-07-30 · in Emacs 29.1

…and they have been circling around with attempted fixes, regressions etc for a long time [1] [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6166

comment by zmmmmm · 2022-08-09 · in How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?

It’s not like we haven’t been trying! Just see how these map to the issues I originally mentioned: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao...

comment by eurasiantiger · 2021-09-12 · in The Magic Behind the Scenes of Docker Desktop

…should be fairly easy as soon as people let the Docker devs know how they expect it to work: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues

comment by alin23 · 2021-09-12 · in The Magic Behind the Scenes of Docker Desktop

…been a pretty awful experience on Mac for a long time, so any competition is surely welcome. [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499

comment by tjscott · 2021-09-08 · in How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac

…for significant improvements, but I've never tried that setup. Here's a long discussion about it: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1592#issuecomment-6...

comment by andrewmackrodt · 2021-09-03 · in Improve Docker performance on macOS by 20x

I opened this ticket 3.5 years ago and they still violate GDPR https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/2122

comment by driverdan · 2021-05-02 · in Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now?

…best to move away from docker for mac for a couple of reasons: 1) Years of CPU/Battery hogging ( https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499 ) After the fix, this seems to regress every few releases (…

comment by JamesonNetworks · 2021-04-25 · in Ask HN: How do people orchestrate microservices for development on macOS?

…for x86 builds for Lambda (which doesn't support ARM), and hit this brick wall, unfortunately: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5123 I went and checked the issue when i saw they've made a formal release but it doesn't appear to be…

comment by chubs · 2021-04-16 · in Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)

…you (or someone else) runs across this there's an open issue with a link to a build with the fix: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5527#issuecomment-8...

comment by djs55 · 2021-04-11 · in M1 dev setup with a virtual Linux box

…this software gained such a wide adoption on Macs. Docker on Linux works flawlessly meanwhile. [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5146 [2] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5116

comment by purerandomness · 2021-03-22 · in Please don't upgrade Docker without asking first

…container. This is the most comfortable method of development for me, and works perfectly on Linux. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3677

comment by hashkb · 2021-03-20 · in Docker for Mac M1 RC

Ouch ... ~10x slower ???? https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5389 from a github comment: "Such a surprise every time I import a database to see it run about 10x slower than amd64."

comment by pella · 2021-03-19 · in Docker for Mac M1 RC

I ran into [this]( https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5208 ) bug just today - mentioned in the release notes. If you're using a VPN (in my case, the NextDNS client), you might want to de-select the option to start Docker on boot.…

comment by darkteflon · 2021-03-19 · in Docker for Mac M1 RC

…Docker on Intel Mac been crappy? Since forever if you actually try to use it for real development? https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77 > As far as the "laundry list" is concerned... 12 apps were listed. 5 were emulated, 4 were…

comment by dolni · 2021-03-03 · in Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in

…running inside of Docker (quite a common usecase!) the performance is completely unusable still: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5236 We're talking a suite that normally takes 30 seconds taking 10+ minutes.

comment by tommoor · 2021-03-03 · in Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in

…an example thread of many users experiencing resource utilization issues with various root causes: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499 Some root causes have been addressed. If they are significantly changing the architecture with…

comment by mulcahey · 2020-12-16 · in Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5077 "It's us that need to fix it, not Apple, so we expect it to work on the current M1 chips."

comment by anentropic · 2020-11-27 · in Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)

…it, but there have been other related tickets that have been closed without any real resolution: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4323 It unfortunately prevents me from using Docker for local development. I'm hoping things change…

comment by dylanz · 2020-11-27 · in Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)

…quite strange to me. [1]: https://www.docker.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-chips-and-docke... [2]: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733 > Go isn't available because porting languages to a new processor is non-trivial. I'm sorry, I…

comment by DCKing · 2020-11-20 · in Is Apple Silicon Ready?

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733 "Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon #4733" Even though, yes, in theory. Each new platform and arch requires work.

comment by valbaca · 2020-11-14 · in Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machine for a Backend dev?

Yeah, well, Docker doesn't currently work so smoothly on Apple Silicon: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733

comment by cptwunderlich · 2020-11-14 · in Ask HN: Is an ARM-based laptop a viable development machine for a Backend dev?

…there's nothing we can do about it yet) as the new chips don't have virtualisation support yet. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733 Notice the lack of panic or any mention of "it'll never be done", even implied.

comment by ovi256 · 2020-11-13 · in Your Computer Isn't Yours

…this M1 Macbook since the developer ecosystem is still unsupported by it. Take this for example: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733 Docker still doesn't run on Apple Silicon Macs, so the migration path is already disrupted here.

comment by rvz · 2020-11-12 · in Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Docker doesn't work yet. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733

comment by mtmail · 2020-11-11 · in Will the new MBP work natively with Docker, Ubuntu, Node, ect?

No, but they are working on it: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733#issuecomment-6...

comment by ytch · 2020-07-23 · in macOS 11 Virtualization Framework to Run Linux in a VM

…to run fine when it doesn't even run good on x86 OSX? There are constant performance issues ( https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499 ) because docker-on-mac is basically a VM running Linux

comment by harpratap · 2020-06-22 · in ARM Mac Impact on Intel

…up any smidgen of available RAM I'm surprised my machine is able to run anything else at all. [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/2297

comment by brigandish · 2020-06-21 · in How to reclaim disk space used by Docker volumes, but keep a few important on

…financial sense? I have similar issues with docker-on-mac where it keeps using 100% of my cpu ( https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499 ) because of which my 2 year old Macbook's screen has started dying due to overheating so much (…

comment by harpratap · 2020-06-12 · in Speeding up a Git monorepo

…Machine? Because on OSX it's a well known issue that Docker sucks up your CPU and thus battery - https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499 I get a similar 2-3 Hour battery life on my older 2017 model

comment by harpratap · 2020-06-02 · in Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

…you happened to develop with Macs? Because Docker for Mac has a known network performance issue. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3497

comment by rumanator · 2020-05-23 · in Programming Inside a Container

This coupled with the horrible docker 100% cpu usage bug ( https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499 ) might be the top reasons why I hate WFH right now. My Linux desktop in office was so much faster at everything (granted its desktop…

comment by harpratap · 2020-05-22 · in MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

…serious file system performance issues that make docker for mac a non-starter for some projects: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77 https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/osxfs/#performance-is...

comment by fnord77 · 2020-04-15 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

…sure if the same applies to K3s, though. [1] https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/3207 , https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3065 , https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3539 , etc; there must be dozens and dozens of these

comment by atombender · 2020-03-04 · in Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6

…Here's the main bug on Docker for Mac consuming excessive CPU. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499

comment by sa46 · 2020-01-30 · in Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger

…EDIT: It turns out I’m not making this up/an edge case, at least 940 people have run into this too: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/371

comment by thosakwe · 2019-09-12 · in Dissatisfied with Docker

…real problems with docker, but do we wanna talk about docker for Mac? A total performance disaster. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao...

comment by aledalgrande · 2019-09-12 · in Dissatisfied with Docker

This feature currently does not work with the OS X ssh agent: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/410

comment by bsilvereagle · 2019-04-04 · in Defence Against the Docker Arts

…but still much slower than native. Many devs have resorted to workarounds such as NFS or rsync. [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77

comment by lobster_johnson · 2018-01-06 · in Docker for Mac with Kubernetes

…on Windows? I tried CMD.exe, Powershell, Bash (WSL / Ubuntu) and Cmder. None worked well. [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1759

comment by Fnoord · 2018-01-06 · in Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

Docker for Mac is not usable today, because of high cpu due IO [1] [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1759

comment by perceptronas · 2018-01-06 · in Docker for Mac with Kubernetes

…by slow volume read/write performance. There is an ongoing discussion here on the issue: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77 . Even after adding the new :cached option to my volume declaration in docker-compose yml file,…

comment by evbots · 2017-07-23 · in Local Rails Development with Docker and Docker Compose

…frequently). If you need to work with 100GB on disk you're going to have a lot of problems. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77

comment by bpicolo · 2017-05-15 · in Running Java on Docker images on a Mac

…would be building a jar on a macbook native took 11 seconds, takes docker for mac 9 minutes. See https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77 https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/668 and a slew of other reports that can all be traced…

comment by ledgerdev · 2017-04-23 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?

…it difficult to reach the "Reset to Factory defaults" menu option. The workaround described here https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1159#issuecomment-2... is to remove the qcow2 and restart the app. Unfortunately containers and…

comment by djs55 · 2017-01-20 · in What’s New in Docker 1.13?