Performance specs about boot2docker-debian

[tianon]

The spec requirements of this should be about the same as the original -- 1GB of RAM or more, and any Debian-compatible system should be supported (which is the majority of systems).

[jakirkham]

Do you have a rough idea of what fraction of that ~1GB is taken up by the OS when running and some idea of the target fraction?

[tianon]

We don't have any unambiguously defined targets for the runtime footprint (just "small") -- as-is, it's a very, very minimal Debian installation (base on the "minbase" debootstrap variant), so it should be really small, but I haven't actually measured to know what it ends up being in practice.

[jakirkham]

Sure, I understand. Please keep me posted. I'd like to have some idea of where this stands relative to the legacy image once it is feeling more finished, but before it becomes the standard.