I’m using a gentoo-based image to compile some C++ libraries. When I run certain make commands using the image, the memory of com.docker.hyperkit shoots up to the multi-gigabyte range and I get config errors along the lines of
[ 0%] Performing configure step for 'libuv'
+ libtoolize
+ aclocal -I m4
Out of memory!
I’ve gotten similar errors with an ubuntu-based image as well. This is reproducible for me in the sense that I can delete all of my containers, images, and volumes, build the image from scratch, delete the contents of the build directory, and still get the same error. I’ve tried with both Docker for Mac beta and stable.
My suspicion is that this could be related to the size of the volume that I’m mounting - it’s got several C++ dependencies, including boost, so a very large number of files. However, even if the entire contents of the volume were stored in memory it wouldn’t account for the memory usage I’m seeing for com.docker.hyperkit.
Note I can run this same build script on a linux host with docker and it works fine.
Below is my current docker info. I can try to provide more but I’m not familiar enough with docker to know what might be useful unless someone asks for it. I can try to find a minimal reproducible example - this is a little tricky because it’s part of a fairly complex build script for something proprietary.
Thanks!
$ docker info
Containers: 0
Running: 0
Paused: 0
Stopped: 0
Images: 4
Server Version: 1.12.0
Storage Driver: aufs
Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Dirs: 6
Dirperm1 Supported: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge null host overlay
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Security Options: seccomp
Kernel Version: 4.4.15-moby
Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.4
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 4
Total Memory: 13.68 GiB
Name: moby
ID: CSLR:UZYZ:3F5R:3DZQ:U4PR:5BNO:75KP:ZXZF:RDMC:7KZD:NP43:O2VT
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): true
File Descriptors: 17
Goroutines: 29
System Time: 2016-08-25T16:30:39.099777237Z
EventsListeners: 1
No Proxy: *.local, 169.254/16
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Insecure Registries:
127.0.0.0/8