Diagnosing slow docker/docker-compose commands?

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I’m trying to build a custom dockerfile, and I’m finding when I run it docker ps -a, docker-compose up, etc. etc. take forever to run, occasionally timing out. I haven’t had this issue until I’m running this package, and I’m curious the best ways to debug what’s going wrong. If someone knows the solution, so much the better, but I’m also just interested in learning where I can start to diagnose troubles like these.

docker-compose up --verbose yields a tonne of:

compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([<Service: slurmctld>, <Service: slurmdbd>])

and ultimately terminates with:

compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([<Service: slurmctld>, <Service: slurmdbd>])
compose.parallel.parallel_execute_iter: Failed: <Service: slurm_mysql>
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([<Service: slurmctld>, <Service: slurmdbd>])
compose.parallel.feed_queue: <Service: slurmdbd> has upstream errors - not processing
compose.parallel.parallel_execute_iter: Failed: <Service: slurmdbd>
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([<Service: slurmctld>])
compose.parallel.feed_queue: <Service: slurmctld> has upstream errors - not processing
compose.parallel.parallel_execute_iter: Failed: <Service: slurmctld>
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([])

If I do a docker ps -a while this hang is going on, docker ps -a also hangs, ultimately giving me a timeout.

I find if I do a docker system prune it often springs back to life immediately, but it’s kinda annoying to do so.

My docker-compose looks like this:

version: "3"
services:

# Slurm MYSQL
  slurm_mysql:
    image: mysql:5.7
    hostname: slurm_mysql
    container_name: slurm_mysql
    environment:
      MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD: "yes"
      MYSQL_DATABASE: slurm_acct_db
      MYSQL_USER: slurm
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: password
    volumes:
      - var_lib_mysql:/var/lib/mysql
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
        - nginx_proxy

# Slurm database interface daemon
  slurmdbd:
    cap_add:
        - SYS_ADMIN
        - DAC_READ_SEARCH
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
        - nginx_proxy
    image: slurm-master:17.02.10
    command: ["slurmdbd"]
    container_name: slurmdbd
    hostname: slurmdbd
    volumes:
      - etc_munge:/etc/munge
      - etc_slurm:/etc/slurm
      - var_log_slurm:/var/log/slurm
    expose:
      - "6819"
    depends_on:
      - slurm_mysql
    privileged: true

# Slurm controller daemon
  slurmctld:
    cap_add:
        - SYS_ADMIN
        - DAC_READ_SEARCH
    privileged: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
        - nginx_proxy
    image: slurm-master:17.02.10
    command: ["slurm-web"]
    container_name: slurmctld
    hostname: slurmctld
    volumes:
      - etc_munge:/etc/munge
      - etc_slurm:/etc/slurm
      - slurm_jobdir:/data
      - var_log_slurm:/var/log/slurm
      - ./slurm-web:/home/slurm-web
    expose:
      - 6817
      - 80
    depends_on:
      - "slurmdbd"
    build:
        context: ..
        dockerfile: slurm-master/Dockerfile

    environment:
      - VIRTUAL_HOST=slurm-web.mywebsite.com
      - VIRTUAL_NETWORK=nginx-proxy
      - VIRTUAL_PORT=80
      - LETSENCRYPT_HOST=slurm-web.mywebsite.com
      - LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=slurm-web@slurm-web.mywebsite.com

volumes:
  etc_munge:
  etc_slurm:
  slurm_jobdir:
  var_lib_mysql:
  var_log_slurm:

networks:
    nginx_proxy:
        external: true