Container 'Build' exceeded memory limit. NodeJS.

[Aidan]

Local ng test is fine (runs in about 30 secs).

I've tried expanding the docker memory to 3072 but that didn't work.

Project is NodeJS, trying to test using Karma and ChromeHeadless.

Already using flags: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-gpu']

Rerunning the last working pipeline also fails now.

My pipelines YML for reference:

image: node:10.15.3

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        name: Build and Test
        caches:
          - node
        script:
          - apt-get update && apt-get install -yq libgconf-2-4
          - >
            apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget --no-install-recommends && \
              wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -  && \
              sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' && \              apt-get update && \
              apt-get install -y google-chrome-unstable fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-thai-tlwg fonts-kacst ttf-freefont --no-install-recommends
          - npm install
          - npm test
        artifacts:
          - dist/** 

[Theodora Boudale · Accepted solution]

Hi Aidan,

I see in the pipelines yml file you attached here that you are not using any services. In this case, each step has 4096 MB of memory in total. I'm not sure where you set the memory to 3072?

If the build needs more than 4GB of memory to run, then the suggestion I can make would be to use size: 2x for the step (you can check here the documentation: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/configure-bitbucket-pipelinesyml/). With this option, the build will have double the resources available (so 8 GB of memory), but it will also consume twice the number of build minutes.

You mentioned that the build was working before. I have seen a similar issue reported recently, where the builds started failing due to memory issues when HeadlessChrome 88.0.4298 was used, while previous builds, using HeadlessChrome 88.0.4292, were successful. Could this be the case with your builds as well?

Kind regards,
Theodora

[Aidan]

Hi Theodora,

I did add a service in to adjust the step memory but removed it again when it did not work. Trying size: 2x also did not work.

Definitely seems to be an issue with the latest unstable HeadlessChrome release. Switching over to stable has fixed everything. Thanks for the tip!

[Theodora Boudale]

You're welcome @Aidan , good to hear this helped resolve the issue!