Increase Podman memory limit

Question

I am trying to build a large image with Podman. The build fails with

 Reached heap limit Allocation failed

error.

In docker I can avoid this by allocating more memory for docker engine in docker settings.

However, for Podman it doesn't seem to be so easy. I tried to modify ~/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default.json and increase the memory, then run

podman machine stop
podman machine start

with no luck to solve the problem.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The following commands are also very handy for quick resolution.

podman machine stop
podman machine set --cpus 2 --memory 2048
podman machine start

Source: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12713#issuecomment-1002567777