Howdy folks,

I’m trying to understand why I’m getting “insufficient memory” errors when
trying to run Spark Units tests within a CentOS Docker container.

I’m building Spark and running the tests as follows:

# build
sbt/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Dhadoop.version=2.3.0 -Pkinesis-asl
-Phive -Phive-thriftserver package assembly/assembly

# Scala unit tests
sbt/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Dhadoop.version=2.3.0 -Pkinesis-asl
-Phive -Phive-thriftserver catalyst/test sql/test hive/test mllib/test

The build completes successfully. After humming along for many minutes, the
unit tests fail with this:

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: INFO:
os::commit_memory(0x000000074a580000, 30932992, 0) failed;
error='Cannot allocate memory' (errno=12)
#
# There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
# Native memory allocation (malloc) failed to allocate 30932992 bytes
for committing reserved memory.
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /tmp/jvm-21940/hs_error.log
Exception in thread "Thread-20" Exception in thread "Thread-16"
java.io.EOFException
    at 
java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2598)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1318)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:370)
    at 
org.scalatest.tools.Framework$ScalaTestRunner$Skeleton$1$React.react(Framework.scala:945)
    at 
org.scalatest.tools.Framework$ScalaTestRunner$Skeleton$1.run(Framework.scala:934)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:196)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:122)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:210)
    at 
java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.peek(ObjectInputStream.java:2293)
    at 
java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peek(ObjectInputStream.java:2586)
    at 
java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2596)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1318)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:370)
    at sbt.React.react(ForkTests.scala:114)
    at sbt.ForkTests$$anonfun$mainTestTask$1$Acceptor$2$.run(ForkTests.scala:74)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Here are some (I think) relevant environment variables I have set:

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.71-2.5.3.1.el7_0.x86_64"
export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms128m -Xmx1g -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"

How do I narrow down why this is happening? I know that running this thing
within a Docker container may be playing a role here, but before poking
around with Docker configs I want to make an effort at getting the Java
setup right within the container.

I’ve already tried giving the container 2GB of memory, so I don’t think at
this point it’s a restriction on the container.

Any pointers on how to narrow the problem down?

Nick

P.S. If you’re wondering why I’m trying to run unit tests within a Docker
container, I’m exploring a different angle on SPARK-3431
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3431>.
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