Why my jib container failed to start pthread_create failed (EPERM)

Question

I have a Springboot application, packaged in a docker image with jib version 3.2.0.

And when i tried to start on my linux server, i have an error immediatly.

[0.012s][warning][os,thread] Failed to start thread - pthread_create failed (EPERM) for attributes: stacksize: 1024k, guardsize: 4k, detached.
#
# There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
# Cannot create worker GC thread. Out of system resources.
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# //hs_err_pid1.log

I don't know how to see /hs_err_pid1.log because the server crash immediatly and i can't enter with an exec.

After some test i've find that the container work in privileged mode. But i want to avoid that solution for security reason.

I've try to free some ram (4g) but the container still crash.

I've run my container with docker run and docker-compose and i have the same result

I also try to run it on a different server (with similar capacity) and the image works fine.

For information i was on docker version 20.10.4 The image packaged by jib use jdk17 temurin 17.0.3+7

Answer 1

The problem come from openjdk-temurin.

According to this github issue this is corrected by using docker 2.10.5.

I've tried to upgrade my docker version and I doesn't have the issue anymore