Running as a server no longer works

[j-maynard]

Running the Docker image in server mode no longer works. The Docs say to run in server mode like so:

docker run -p 8080:8080 \
  -v ${PWD}:/src \
  hugomods/hugo \
  hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 -p 8080

However this just results in hugo building the site and not running the server. Tested using docker desktop on a Mac. A screenshot also helps.

[razonyang]

However this just results in hugo building the site and not running the server.

Could you please provide the full log? Both of hugo and hugo server will produce the following similar information, but I didn't find it from your screenshot. If the screenshot already includes all information, it seems the process was terminated, still processing or sth else.

[razonyang]

I couldn't reproduce it by using the same Docker image, please let me know if there is any additional information I missed.

linux/arm64

[razonyang]

I'm closing this as per no further information, please comment below if there any additional information.

[j-maynard]

Sorry I've been on Holiday for the Christmas period and I've just got back. here's the output of both commands:

Additional information... Docker Desktop for Mac (official client) running on an Apple M1 (So ARM64)

[razonyang]

Hi @j-maynard, according to the screenshot you provided above, the ... hugo server ... does't finish yet, it should produce similar info as the second command, or display some errors, I guess the process comsumed too many memory and was terminated by OS.

I can reproduce it with limited ram for container, as the image below shown, the process was killed by OS without errors in stdout.

Gif:

You can check the system/memory log or sth similar, /var/log/kern.log for Linux (Ubuntu), I don't know how on macOS, please google yourself.

Back to the issue, if it's an out of memory issue, I don't have a solution for this except adding more RAM. you can either adding more RAM or specifying the --renderToDisk flag.

[j-maynard]

You were right it was a memory issue in part because of the way server runs and the sheer size of the GitLab Handbook. Hugo unhelpfully doesn't tell us when it runs out of memory or exits with a non-zero exit code. Changing things so that it use --renderToDisk massively reduces the memory footprint though at the expense of performance.

Thank you for your help with this... I can share this with my team.