The computation for memory usage is incorrect in

as that will give the system's memory rather than the container's limit memory.

In fact with newer JDKs there's no need to set it explicitly, instead you can let it compute it automatically. But don't that's also not good as it defaults to 25% of RAM that is allocated by default.

Instead specify the percentage usually 80% is good. -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=80

Here's how I used it https://github.com/trajano/spring-cloud-demo/blob/12deda06f3fb9c4101b4d4cf3c623a3001bd10d8/Dockerfile#L45

However, this would need to have an upgrade of the JDK as JDK8 does not support the parameter.

A workaround to this would be to use /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.limit_in_bytes

You can verify this by

docker run --memory=1g  --entrypoint /bin/cat -it justb4/jmeter /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.limit_in_bytes