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how to check a container run out of memory in container


I found that journalctl can limit start_time and end_time so that below command can work well:

journalctl -k \           --since "`date -r file "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`" \           --until "`date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`" | grep -q -F \           -e 'Out of memory' \           -e 'invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x' \           -e ': page allocation failure: order:'

I take the file mtime as start time so that i can get all kernel info during test.


You can use :

docker container inspect your-container-name | jq .[].State.OOMKilled

Returns true/false.

docker container inspect return json formated stuff about the container. jq is like 'sed for json' and with '.[].State.OOMKilled' you filter informations about your container to find is it was OOMKilled or not.

Update :

You can use -f to archive the same thing :

docker container inspect your-container-name -f '{{json .State.OOMKilled}}'