I recently mis-configured one of my containers and it killed my entire computer. I can reproduce this at will Set the number of download threads too high on the RDT-Client container and start downloads All other containers become unresponsive The Docker Engine becomes unresponsive I lose VNC, SSH …

One rogue container kills the whole host OS (macOS)

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