Starting a container with memory limit below 8M leaves zombie system processes and unstoppable container about windows-containers

[ntrappe-msft]

🔖 ADO 50069941. Will try to repro but may hand off to another team member.

[ntrappe-msft]

Thank you for bringing up this Issue! It's made us aware of areas of improvement around limited memory situations in containers and how we want to manage that. I'm assuming you selected 6M (6 megabytes) as the memory limit because the Docker docs state that as the minimum.

Unfortunately, that's only for Linux containers. Windows containers require more memory, usually in the hundreds of megabytes to start cleanly. We'll continue to work on this Issue, but, as a rule of thumb, we'd recommend the following:

• For Nano Server images, use 80MB minimum
• For Server Core images, use 200MB minimum