Docker build from Dockerfile with more memory - docker

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How to docker build from Dockerfile with more memory?
This is a different question from this Allow more memory when docker build a Dockerfile
When installing the software natively, there is enough memory to successfully build and install the marian tool
But when building the Docker image using the Dockerfile
https://github.com/marian-nmt/marian/blob/master/scripts/docker/Dockerfile.cpu , it fails with multiple memory exhausted errors
virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
[out]:
Step : RUN cmake $MARIANPATH && make -j
---> Running in 4867d166d17a
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR not found or specified
-- Cannot find CUDA libraries. Compiling without them.
-- Could NOT find CUDA (missing: CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR CUDA_NVCC_EXECUTABLE CUDA_INCLUDE_DIRS CUDA_CUDART_LIBRARY)
-- Looking for pthread.h
-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Looking for pthread_create
-- Looking for pthread_create - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Boost version: 1.58.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
-- system
-- filesystem
-- program_options
-- timer
-- iostreams
-- python
-- thread
-- chrono
-- regex
-- date_time
-- atomic
-- Found Python
-- Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so (found suitable version "2.7.12", minimum required is "2.7")
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so (found version "1.2.8")
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.7.4")
-- Git version: 5abc774
-- Found SparseHash: /usr/include
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /marian/build
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virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
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And eventually it leads to:
src/amun/CMakeFiles/libcommon.dir/build.make:254: recipe for target 'src/amun/CMakeFiles/libcommon.dir/common/loader.cpp.o' failed
virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
make[2]: *** [src/amun/CMakeFiles/cpumode.dir/cpu/decoder/encoder_decoder.cpp.o] Error 1
src/amun/CMakeFiles/cpumode.dir/build.make:110: recipe for target 'src/amun/CMakeFiles/cpumode.dir/cpu/decoder/encoder_decoder.cpp.o' failed
[ 79%] Built target libcnpy
virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
src/amun/CMakeFiles/libcommon.dir/build.make:326: recipe for target 'src/amun/CMakeFiles/libcommon.dir/common/printer.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: *** [src/amun/CMakeFiles/libcommon.dir/common/printer.cpp.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:340: recipe for target 'src/amun/3rd_party/yaml-cpp/CMakeFiles/libyaml-cpp-amun.dir/all' failed
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Looking at the docker build --help, there are options to control memory usage:
$ docker build --help
Usage: docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -
Build an image from a Dockerfile
Options:
--build-arg list Set build-time variables (default [])
--cache-from stringSlice Images to consider as cache sources
--cgroup-parent string Optional parent cgroup for the container
--compress Compress the build context using gzip
--cpu-period int Limit the CPU CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) period
--cpu-quota int Limit the CPU CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) quota
-c, --cpu-shares int CPU shares (relative weight)
--cpuset-cpus string CPUs in which to allow execution (0-3, 0,1)
--cpuset-mems string MEMs in which to allow execution (0-3, 0,1)
--disable-content-trust Skip image verification (default true)
-f, --file string Name of the Dockerfile (Default is 'PATH/Dockerfile')
--force-rm Always remove intermediate containers
--help Print usage
--isolation string Container isolation technology
--label list Set metadata for an image (default [])
-m, --memory string Memory limit
--memory-swap string Swap limit equal to memory plus swap: '-1' to enable unlimited swap
--network string Set the networking mode for the RUN instructions during build (default "default")
--no-cache Do not use cache when building the image
--pull Always attempt to pull a newer version of the image
-q, --quiet Suppress the build output and print image ID on success
--rm Remove intermediate containers after a successful build (default true)
--security-opt stringSlice Security options
--shm-size string Size of /dev/shm, default value is 64MB
-t, --tag list Name and optionally a tag in the 'name:tag' format (default [])
--ulimit ulimit Ulimit options (default [])
But I couldn't figure out the correct syntax of where exactly to put the -m option -_-|||
It isn't before the Dockerfile:
# Before Docker file.
$ docker build -m 4g Dockerfile.cpu -t ibot-cpu .
"docker build" requires exactly 1 argument(s).
See 'docker build --help'.
Usage: docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -
Build an image from a Dockerfile
It isn't after Dockerfile before -t
# Before -t
$ docker build Dockerfile.cpu -m 4g -t ibot-cpu .
"docker build" requires exactly 1 argument(s).
See 'docker build --help'.
Usage: docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -
Build an image from a Dockerfile
It isn't after -t before the local path
# Before local path
$ docker build Dockerfile.cpu -t ibot-cpu -m 4g .
"docker build" requires exactly 1 argument(s).
See 'docker build --help'.
Usage: docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -
Build an image from a Dockerfile
It isn't after the local path at the end too...
# At the end...
$ docker build Dockerfile.cpu -t ibot-cpu . -m 4g
"docker build" requires exactly 1 argument(s).
See 'docker build --help'.
Usage: docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -
Build an image from a Dockerfile
How to docker build from Dockerfile with more memory?
My docker version:
docker version
Client:
Version: 17.03.1-ce
API version: 1.27
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: c6d412e
Built: Tue Mar 28 00:40:02 2017
OS/Arch: darwin/amd64
Server:
Version: 17.04.0-ce
API version: 1.28 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: 4845c56
Built: Wed Apr 5 18:45:47 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false

Answer 1

It is not something about order. The Dockerfile must be specified with -f
docker build -f Dockerfile.cpu -t ibot-cpu -m 4g .
However, take into account that by default docker does not limit the container memory. It can take the whole free memory.
As I can see that you are on OSX, which runs docker over a Linux VM. Configure the max memory clicking the whale icon in the task bar. It's 2GB by default.
For further information please see my other answer:
How to assign more memory to docker container