Docker container increases ram - docker

Question

I have launched several docker containers and using docker stats, I have verified that one of them increases the consumption of ram memory since it starts until it is restarted.
My question is if there is any way to verify where such consumption comes from within the docker container. There is some way to check the consumption inside the container, something of the docker stats style but for the inside of the container.
Thanks for your cooperation.

Answer 1

Not sure if it's what you are asking for, but here's an example:
(Before your start):
Run a test container docker run --rm -it ubuntu
Install stress by typing apt-get update and apt-get install stress
Run stress --vm-bytes $(awk '/MemAvailable/{printf "%d\n", $2 * 0.9;}' < /proc/meminfo)k --vm-keep -m 1 (it will start consuming memory)
1. with top
If you go to a new terminal you can type docker container exec -it <your container name> top and you will get something like the following:
(notice that the %MEM usage of PID 285 is 68.8%)
docker container exec -it dreamy_jang top
top - 12:46:04 up 22 min, 0 users, load average: 1.48, 1.55, 1.12
Tasks: 4 total, 2 running, 2 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 20.8 us, 0.8 sy, 0.0 ni, 78.4 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 6102828 total, 150212 free, 5396604 used, 556012 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 1942896 total, 1937508 free, 5388 used. 455368 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
285 root 20 0 4209376 4.007g 212 R 100.0 68.8 6:56.90 stress
1 root 20 0 18500 3148 2916 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.09 bash
274 root 20 0 36596 3072 2640 R 0.0 0.1 0:00.21 top
284 root 20 0 8240 1192 1116 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 stress
2. with ps aux
Again, from a new terminal you type docker container exec -it <your container name> ps aux
(notice that the %MEM usage of PID 285 is 68.8%)
docker container exec -it dreamy_jang ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 18500 3148 pts/0 Ss 12:25 0:00 /bin/bash
root 284 0.0 0.0 8240 1192 pts/0 S+ 12:39 0:00 stress --vm-byt
root 285 99.8 68.8 4209376 4201300 pts/0 R+ 12:39 8:53 stress --vm-byt
root 286 0.0 0.0 34400 2904 pts/1 Rs+ 12:48 0:00 ps aux
My source for this stress thing is from this question: How to fill 90% of the free memory?