I’m running Docker desktop on Ubuntu 22.04. Every time I start it, it eats a lot of RAM.
PID USER %MEM COMMAND
135264 user 26.0 qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -cpu host -machine q35 -m 3849 -smp 8 -kernel /opt/docker-desktop/linuxkit/kernel -append page_poison=1 vsyscall=emulate panic=1 nospec_store_bypass_disable noibrs noibpb no_stf_barrier mitigations=off linuxkit.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 vpnkit.connect=tcp+bootstrap+client://gateway.docker.internal:35817/95d4e7d4090b2d25b84ed2f2bd2e54523bafd0dfc2e2388838f04b9d045e0fe2 vpnkit.disable=osxfs-data console=ttyS0 -initrd /opt/docker-desktop/linuxkit/initrd.img -serial pipe:/tmp/qemu-console1696356651/fifo -drive if=none,file=/home/lev/.docker/desktop/vms/0/data/Docker.raw,format=raw,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd0,serial=dummyserial -netdev user,id=net0,ipv6=off,net=192.168.65.0/24,dhcpstart=192.168.65.9 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 -vga none -nographic -monitor none -object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem,size=3849M,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem -chardev socket,id=char0,path=virtiofs.sock0 -device vhost-user-fs-pci,queue-size=1024,chardev=char0,tag=virtiofs0
10422 user 2.3 /snap/firefox/1883/usr/lib/firefox/firefox
...
While docker ps shows that there are no containers running.
I’ve noticed that there is a mention of 3849M of memory in the command but I can’t be entirely sure if it’s related, plus it eats way more than 4 gigs.
>Solution :
Well, Docker uses all allocated memory at start, please see
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4229
You can set memory Limit on:
Dodcker Dashboard >> Settings >> Resources >> Apply and Restart
Otherwise, if you want to check how Resources are splitted between running container,
run docker stats to see memory usage of current running containers
See https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/stats/
For Example:
CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS
db6115785a9e 001_jan_twit 0.00% 35.71MiB / 7.774GiB 0.45% 38.6MB / 659kB 16.4kB / 222MB 2