more engineering focused - was digging into Docker memory usage and found this document very helpful. https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZiQC1Tp9iH320K-uqVLyiJmk4DHJ3c4zgQetJiKYQM/edit TLDR: Macs double count memory access (once upon OS allocation, once upon VM allocation), so Activity Monitor cannot be trusted. Use the ‘Real Memory’ column to monitor Docker’s real memory consumption.