Seems like container limit causes host vm to kill container process. Example with fasttext command and dmesg output.
root@de7f79f064e0:/workspace/wordembeddings# ./fastText/fasttext skipgram -input /tmp/tmpsxvC6d/7f6f69c4-19cf-4fbe-8b39-27be374879c7.txt -output test/blah
Read 0M words
Number of words: 235
Number of labels: 0
Killed
[1518776.719042] Task in /docker/de7f79f064e0493cb0e68d369d5b74378225c10853b24e17b25e776b6f745d74 killed as a result of limit of /docker/de7f79f064e0493cb0e68d369d5b743 78225c10853b24e17b25e776b6f745d74
[1518776.719045] memory: usage 1572844kB, limit 1572864kB, failcnt 1812700
[1518776.719046] memory+swap: usage 0kB, limit 18014398509481983kB, failcnt 0
[1518776.719048] kmem: usage 0kB, limit 18014398509481983kB, failcnt 0
[1518776.719049] Memory cgroup stats for /docker/de7f79f064e0493cb0e68d369d5b74378225c10853b24e17b25e776b6f745d74: cache:704KB rss:1571848KB rss_huge:1404928KB mapped_file:608KB writeback:0KB inactive_anon:0KB active_anon:1561564KB inactive_file:0KB active_file:0KB unevictable:0KB
[1518776.719070] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name
[1518776.719161] [43371] 0 43371 4508 63 16 0 0 entrypoint
[1518776.719165] [43413] 0 43413 328702 28640 162 0 0 node
[1518776.719169] [43425] 0 43425 4566 130 15 0 0 bash
[1518776.719172] [43436] 0 43436 78029 15294 89 0 0 jupyter-noteboo
[1518776.719175] [46335] 0 46335 629984 348594 733 0 0 fasttext
[1518776.719177] Memory cgroup out of memory: Kill process 46347 (fasttext) score 888 or sacrifice child
[1518776.724781] Killed process 46335 (fasttext) total-vm:2519936kB, anon-rss:1393904kB, file-rss:724kB
Seems like container limit causes host vm to kill container process. Example with fasttext command and dmesg output.