When I installed the Docker private beta, and now when I reboot my machine I get a dialog box titled “Failed to start Docker” - Not enough memory to start Docker. The message is “You are trying to start docker but you don’t have enough memory. Free some memory or change your vm settings”.
I’m running Windows 10 build 10586 on a Surface Pro 2 tablet with only 4Gb of memory, so I need to change the VM settings. The question is, how do I change the VM memory settings?
I looked at all of the .config files in the Docker install directory but obviously that’s not the right place…
I can certainly provide the docker debug info if required.
@bsalita the amount of free memory is not the amount of the amount of memory we can set the hyper-v VM to. Detecting that, take some time and slow down the startup time of Docker.
As you suggested, I’m pretty sure we can improve and use a more appropriate default for device with memory constraints.
@jeanlaurent I had the same issue as @bsalita but 1k was still too much with PyCharm running. In HyperV manager I made the RAM utilisation dynamic with minimum 64 MB. That worked well for me. You could try to do the same by default. Start with just enough RAM to boot the Linux and have the slider in the settings section only change the the maximum threshold. I would also add a tick box asking users if minRAM=maxRAM=slider position.
are we saying that turning down the memory slider helps docker memory startup problems?
or are these docker startup memory problems caused by hyper-v?
I normally start docker from my cmd terminal or sometimes from my win git-bash terminal. Are there switches that can be passed when calling the win docker exe? like a memory one?
thank you in advance. -Rob
Follow up:
Switching cpu and mem to min allowed me to get docker restarted
Cleaned up containers with "docker ps -a"
Switching back: Docker now runs with max 2 cpu’s and 2048 memory settings
One currently cannot use the system tray -> Settings… to change the memory allocation. A known bug prevents that because the controls are disabled. The only way to change the memory allocation is to do this in Hyper-V on the MobyLinuxVM. You must stop the VM to change this. However, this causes all kinds of stuff to break in Docker, and you must then restart Docker. However, restarting docker causes the memory setting to revert back to 2GB!
Changing the memory slider under docker application (that is by right hand clicking the docker icon with in the notification area/ tray) settings- advanced solved this issue
I have changed the memory and tried for first time it worked fine and docker was started, but while trying second time again i started to face space issue… but memory setting is low as previous. Need help.
