Sleep/pause/freeze containers when laptop is sleeping

[SalvatoreT]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
At the end of the work day, I close my laptop, and when I open it again the following morning, the battery is usually at 1% or totally dead.

It appears that my Docker Containers continue running through the night even though my laptop is closed and should be asleep. Here's a screenshot from the morning:

Describe the solution you'd like
When the laptop is closed, I'd like for the containers to suspend/freeze/pause or basically stop computing.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Obviously, I could docker compose down at the end of the work day. I like the experience of being able to open my laptop and start development without having to remember setup incantations.

[vivster7]

A number of engineers on our team have also reported similar experiences of waking up to a dead battery and Activity Monitor pointing the finger at Orbstack.

Here's an orb report from an engineer reporting the problem internally:

OrbStack info:
  Version: 1.9.5
  Commit: 8276a76896800e4a12df9d35065c7458488ac010 (v1.9.5)

System info:
  macOS: 15.1.1 (24B91)
  CPU: arm64, 12 cores
  CPU model: Apple M2 Pro
  Model: Mac14,10
  Memory: 32 GiB

Full report: https://orbstack.dev/_admin/diag/orbstack-diagreport_2025-02-06T17-32-42.814015Z.zip

Some attempted fixes that have been unsuccessful :

• Setting "Wake for network access" to "Only on Power Adapter"
• sudo pmset -b tcpkeepalive 0
• sudo pmset -b powernap 0

We have reports of this happening on Orbstack versions as early as 1.8.2, but primarily engineers are on 1.9.x branches.

[kdrag0n]

This is odd as apps aren't normally allowed to run much during sleep on Apple Silicon Macs. Have you seen OrbStack using 100% CPU during the day?

[SalvatoreT]

I have seen the OrbStack Helper hit 100% CPU occasionally, but it doesn't normally hangout there.

[SalvatoreT]

Here's my orb report.

OrbStack info:
  Version: 1.10.2
  Commit: c8153766c4b9696ce21aa984ec7f4106c9d2460e (v1.10.2)

System info:
  macOS: 15.3.2 (24D81)
  CPU: arm64, 10 cores
  CPU model: Apple M1 Pro
  Model: MacBookPro18,1
  Memory: 32 GiB

Full report: https://orbstack.dev/_admin/diag/orbstack-diagreport_2025-03-13T17-34-03.059436Z.zip

[kdrag0n]

As an experiment, here's a build that pauses containers during sleep: https://cdn-updates.orbstack.dev/exp/OrbStack_v1.10.3-15-g85ec3ac17_19098_arm64.dmg

There are a few issues preventing this from being production-ready, but let me know if it helps.

[SalvatoreT]

I just got back today and I'll test it out!

[SalvatoreT]

I had the custom build of OrbStack running overnight, and when I came back, my laptop was still at ~93%!

[kdrag0n]

Added for the next version.

[kdrag0n]

Released in v1.11.0.