Symptoms
When you run an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2017 inside a Linux Docker container, you may receive an out-of-memory error message.
Cause
SQL Server on Linux by default uses a soft limit of 80% of total physical memory when memory.memorylimitmb configuration is not enabled; For Docker containers SQL used to consider 80% of total host memory instead of limiting itself to 80% memory allocated to the docker container. This incorrect memory limit allows SQL Server to try to consume memory more than that is available for container and could be a candidate for termination by OOM Killer.
Note When you create the Docker image you have to specify –m to limit the Docker memory. Refer following article for more information.
Resolution
A fix for this issue is included in the following update for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 10 for SQL Server 2017
Note If memory.memorylimitmb configuration is not configured then this Fix allows SQL Server to limit itself to a soft limit of 80% of allocated memory to the container.
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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