I'm running docker through colima and my total images size hit ~10GBs. I need to increase this size in order to continue.
Is there a way to define this somewhere in colima?
I had the same issue and it is possible to customise Colima VMs CPU, Memory (GB) and Disk (GiB):
colima start --cpu 4 --memory 4 --disk 100
But it is weird because the documentation states:
the default VM created by Colima has 2 CPUs, 2GiB memory and 60GiB
storage
Colima - Customizing the VM
The default VM created by Colima has 2 CPUs, 2GiB memory and 60GiB storage.
The VM can be customized either by passing additional flags to colima start. e.g. --cpu, --memory, --disk, --runtime. Or by editing the config file with colima start --edit.
NOTE: disk size cannot be changed after the VM is created.
Customization Examples
create VM with 1CPU, 2GiB memory and 10GiB storage.
colima start --cpu 1 --memory 2 --disk 10
modify an existing VM to 4CPUs and 8GiB memory.
colima stop
colima start --cpu 4 --memory 8
resize storage to 100 GB.
Due to disk size cannot be changed after the VM is created.
work around: we can destroy and recreate the VM if we accept data lost
colima delete
colima start --disk 100
Reference
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74402260/9345651 by #Carlos Cavero
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima#customizing-the-vm
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md
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I've been having loads of issues with kubectl not having enough space. How can I increase the default storage size allocated to docker?
None of minikube recommendations worked.
1. Run "docker system prune" to remove unused Docker data (optionally with "-a")
2. Increase the storage allocated to Docker for Desktop by clicking on:
Docker icon > Preferences > Resources > Disk Image Size
3. Run "minikube ssh -- docker system prune" if using the Docker container runtime
And the second is not possible from command line...
Taking your comment into consideration
I get ImagePullBackOff when I try to deploy nginx on the cluster –
Caterina
You can specify minikube's disk allocations separately:
minikube start --memory=8192 --cpus=4 --disk-size=50g
Which can help you to work around the disk space issues as the default is significantly smaller: --disk-size string Disk size allocated to the minikube VM (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b, k, m or g). (default "20000mb")
I've seen that on Windows and Mac it's very easy to change the RAM containers are given - you just go into the GUI. But how do you do this on Linux, where it's a CLI instead of a GUI?
The Docker docs mention an -m flag, but this flag doesn't give any response (just prints the entirety of the help output again) so I don't know whether it worked. It also seems specific to containers, whereas I'd like to change the global default.
Lastly, is there a way to check the current default RAM, so I can make sure whatever I do in the end actually worked?
On native Linux, Docker can use all available host memory. It uses a lightweight kernel-based isolation mechanism that generally shares resources like CPU cores and memory (and on modern installations, disk space) using the standard kernel mechanism. There isn't a control or setting to limit or increase this.
On other platforms Docker runs a hidden Linux VM to be able to run a Linux kernel to use these isolation mechanisms, and the Docker Desktop memory control affects the memory allocation for that VM.
This is how I "check" the Docker container memory:
Open the linux command shell and -
Step 1: Check what containers are running.
docker ps
Step 2: Note down the 'CONTAINER ID' of the container you want to check and issue the following command:
docker container stats <containerID>
eg:
docker container stats c981
This will give an output like:
CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS
c981c9482284 registry 0.00% 4.219MiB / 1.944GiB 0.21% 9.66kB / 0B 0B / 0B 14
'MEM USAGE / LIMIT' column will give you the actual memory usage and default memory allocated.
Note : press ctrl+c to come out of the view and back to command prompt.
I need to have a Docker Container with 6gb of RAM memory.
I tried this command:
docker run -p 5311:5311 --memory=6g my-linux
But it doesn't work because I logged in to the Docker Container and I checked the amount of memory available. This is the output which shows there are only 2gb available:
>> cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 2046768 kB
MemFree: 1747120 kB
MemAvailable: 1694424 kB
I tried setting the preferences -> advance in the Docker Application.
If I set 6gb, it works... I mean, I have a container with 6gb MemTotal.
In this way all my containers will have 6gb...
I was wondering how to allocate 6gb of memory for only one container using some commands or setting something in the Docker File. Any help?
Don't rely on /proc/meminfo for tracking memory usage from inside a docker container. /proc/meminfo is not containerized, which means that the file is displaying the meminfo of your host system.
Your /proc/meminfo indicates that your Host system has 2G of memory available. The only way you'll be able to make 6G available in your container without getting more physical memory is to create a swap partition.
Once you have a swap partition larger or equal to ~4G, your container will be able to use that memory (by default, docker imposes no limitation to running containers).
If you want to limit the amount of memory available to your container explicitly to 6G, you could do docker run -p 5311:5311 --memory=2g --memory-swap=6g my-linux, which means that out of a total memory limit of 6G (--memory-swap), upto 2G may be physical memory (--memory). More information about this here.
There is no way to set memory limits in the Dockerfile that I know of (and I think there shouldn't be: Dockerfiles are there for building containers, not running them), but docker-compose supports the above options through the mem_limit and memswap_limit keys.
I am having a Docker image of virtual size 6.5 GB
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE
Image_Name latest d8dcd701981e About an hour ago 6.565 GB
but the RAM in my system is only 4GB , the container is working at a good speed though , I am really confused as how the RAM allocation is done for the docker containers . Is there any limit to the RAM size being allocated to a container as in the end docker container is just another isolated process running in the Operating system.
The virtual size of an image has nothing to do with memory allocation
If your huge image, once launched as a container, does very little, it won't reserve much memory (not consume much CPU)
For more on memory allocation, see this answer: you can limit at runtime the maximum memory allocation. And that, independently of the image size.
For example:
$ docker run -ti -m 300M --memory-swap -1 ubuntu:14.04 /bin/bash
We set memory limit and disabled swap memory limit, this means the processes in the container can use 300M memory and as much swap memory as they need (if the host supports swap memory).
I run some docker images on an EC2 host and recently noticed, that the docker FS is always 100GB. The host FS is only 8GB though.
What would happen, if i use more than 8GB on the docker image? Magic?
That comes from PR 14709 and the docker daemon --storage-opt dm.basesize= option:
Current default basesize is 10G. Change it to 100G. Reason being that for
some people 10G is turning out to be too small and we don't have capabilities
to grow it dyamically.
This is just overcommitting and no real space is allocated till container
actually writes data. And this is no different then fs based graphdrivers
where virtual size of a container root is unlimited.
So when you go over 8 GB, you should get a "No more space left on device" error message. No magic.