Why is dockerd-current process consuming all the available memory ?

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Issue

  • Why is dockerd-current process consuming all the available memory ?
  • System ran out of memory and docker-current is the top consumer of memory. From vmcore
Top 10 processes by RSS:

    crash> ps -Gu | sed 's/>//g' | sort -nrk8 | head
       PID    PPID  CPU       TASK        ST  %MEM     VSZ    RSS  COMM
       1464      1   3  ffff880814b81f60  IN  45.4 18486252 15701952  dockerd-current
       3027   2761   2  ffff8807fd608000  IN   1.2 1621540 423904  node
       4648   4543   0  ffff88009b8a0000  IN   0.2  238596  85688  splunkd
       1202      1   3  ffff880035901f60  IN   0.1  130908  23008  rpc.gssd
       1066      1   0  ffff880812ef8fb0  IN   0.1  123844  21692  dmeventd
       1126      1   3  ffff88081d420000  IN   0.0  256144  15964  vmtoolsd
      54163  54162   1  ffff88047c42edd0  IN   0.0  258892  14684  nrsysmond
       1462      1   3  ffff880816a40000  IN   0.0  228628  10072  snmpd
      55801  55745   0  ffff8803a995bec0  IN   0.0  285512   9516  docker-current
       2855   2825   1  ffff880023aa2f10  IN   0.0  284360   9504  docker-current

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • docker-1.12.6-16.el7.x86_64

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