High CPU usage on Docker VM when lazydocker is running

[Daniel Compton]

Describe the bug

When I start lazydocker against an idle macOS Docker Desktop install, CPU usage goes from ~2% to over 100%.

To Reproduce

This is reproducible whether "Use the new Virtualisation framework " is enabled or disabled in the Docker settings.

1. Start Docker Desktop for Mac
2. Ensure no containers are running
3. Open Activity Monitor
4. Observe CPU usage of qemu-system-aarch64 (new Virtualisation framework disabled) or Virtual Machine Service (new Virtualisation framework enabled) goes to 100-200%
5. Close lazydocker
6. Wait ~10s
7. Observe CPU usage goes back to near zero

Expected behaviour

Low to no CPU impact from turning on lazydocker

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS

$ lazydocker --version
Version: 0.12
Date: 
BuildSource: homebrew
Commit: 
OS: darwin
Arch: arm64

Additional context

Setting dockerRefreshInterval didn't seem to affect the CPU usage, it was still at ~170%.

$ cat ~/.config/lazydocker/config.yml 
update:
  dockerRefreshInterval: 2000ms

[Jesse Duffield]

@danielcompton can you check to see if this issue persists on the latest release?

[Daniel Compton]

This is hugely improved, thanks very much!

• With the new Virtualisation framework I am at ~1% CPU at idle, and ~10% with lazydocker running.
• With the old QEMU based virtualisation it is 1-2% CPU at idle, and 50% with lazydocker running.

Side note: It seems like (as of 10 months ago, according to Reddit) the new Virtualization framework still has a lot of work to go with disk performance: https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/nha68s/macos_what_impact_does_use_new_virtualization/

[Jesse Duffield]

Awesome. I'll close this issue off then. There's still more gains to be made in CPU usage but I'll capture that in a separate issue