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The RAM-over-CPU point matches what I've seen self-hosting small stacks on a VPS: CPU sits idle and memory is what forces the next box.

Two questions. With gVisor sharing host memory, what happens when several browser-heavy sandboxes spike at once on the same host: OOM-kill, throttle, or migrate? And at $0.05 to $0.10 per free user, what's the rough sandbox density per host?

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If a host reaches critical memory, then it will start restarting memory heavy sandboxes, but it's own us to relieve pressure on such hosts by moving the new ones and sleep awake one's off of it.

So the 5-10 cents price is not achieved because of sandbox density, it's because we limit the number of awake hours a free user gets per week. Right now it's about 10 hrs/wk and it's quite managable.

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