Bug 1561195 - Docker Zombie Reaping issue in Docker 1.12
Summary: Docker Zombie Reaping issue in Docker 1.12
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: OpenShift Container Platform
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Containers
Version: 3.6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jhon Honce
QA Contact: DeShuai Ma
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: 1585289 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 1186913
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-03-27 20:51 UTC by Greg Rodriguez II
Modified: 2021-06-10 15:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-05-10 16:11:47 UTC
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Description Greg Rodriguez II 2018-03-27 20:51:38 UTC
Description of problem:
Site is experiencing a known issue with Docker that was resolved in Docker v1.13, however site is on OCP v3.6, which has no plan on utilizing Docker v1.13 and site is requesting a Red Hat verified solution to the Zombie Reaping issue reported here: https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/docker-and-the-pid-1-zombie-reaping-problem/ and resolved by Docker using Tini, reported here: https://github.com/krallin/tini#using-tini

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
OCP 3.6

How reproducible:
Verified by Customer and Docker

Steps to Reproduce:
See https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/docker-and-the-pid-1-zombie-reaping-problem/ for more information

Actual results:
Zombie processes are utilizing a large portion of allocated CPU and Memory for site but no known supported solution

Expected results:
Site would like to be able to kill the affected processes and better utilize their CPU and Memory

Additional info:
Issue: https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/docker-and-the-pid-1-zombie-reaping-problem/
Fix: https://github.com/krallin/tini#using-tini

Comment 1 Derrick Ornelas 2018-04-05 19:57:34 UTC
Red Hat's supported solution in this case is to run systemd in the container

  Is running systemd inside of a docker container supported? 
  https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1118173

You can configure the registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7 image as described in the Kbase solution, or you can use the registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7-init image which is already configured to run systemd.

Comment 2 Jhon Honce 2018-05-10 16:11:47 UTC
Please re-open if running systemd fails to address the issue.

Comment 3 Jhon Honce 2018-06-01 20:44:58 UTC
*** Bug 1585289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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