memory usage of docker container is increasing ~10GB

[Aman Dalmia]

Hi,
I am using the science parse (docker) for my work and I found that every time I start the memory consumption increases after some parsing the pdfs.

Is the docker is saving any data when a parsing (pdf -> json) request is been requested?

Thanks

[Dirk Groeneveld]

It does not save anything between documents, but since it is a Java program, it will eventually grow to use all the space that we allow it to take. The docker container starts the server with -Xmx8g, which means the Java heap is allowed to grow to 8GB. Plus some overhead, I am not surprised that it would grow to 10GB. In fact, 8GB for the Java process is small. It would run better with 16GB, but then many people couldn't run it at all.

Sorry, science-parse is a big project. Most of the space is used for the model.