Docker windows container memory limit

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Andrey M. picture Andrey M. · Apr 18, 2017 · Viewed 48.5k times · Source

Does docker windows containers, with Docker Desktop for Windows, have default memory limit? I have an application that was crashing when I run it in the container, but when I tried to specify --memory 2048mb parameter to the docker run command it seems to run fine. At least in the scenario where it was crashing before. This gives me impression that there is default memory limit, but I could not find it in the documentation. So my question is there memory limit and if it is where it is documented?

Answer

deafsheep picture deafsheep · May 23, 2017

According to talks on Docker for windows Github issues (https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/31604), when Docker for Windows is run under Windows 10, it is actually using a Hyper-V isolation model (and process model is not accessible in Win 10 scenario).

And in that isolation type, your container is run inside a lightweight VM, which DOES have a default limit, and it is 1 Gb. So if you want to have more memory you should use -m param.

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