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AI-generatedDocker daemon concurrency limits affecting image pull latency
The Docker daemon utilizes the max-concurrent-downloads and max-concurrent-uploads settings to manage the parallel transfer of image layers. By default, these limits are set to three concurrent operations. In high-density environments such as CI/CD runners or autoscaling nodes, multiple simultaneous container creations often trigger image pulls that exceed t