Running Docker image with Matlab on a Mac

Hi,

We have been trying to dockerize some of our Matlab workflows, which has worked perfectly fine. However, we are running into problems when we try to run the same docker image on a Mac computer. Upon launching matlab, we get the following error:

% root@0488926e7766:/workdir# matlab
% MATLAB is selecting SOFTWARE OPENGL rendering.
% Fatal Internal Error: std::exception: uint64_t foundation::core::system::linux::x86_64::getMaximumProcessorFrequencyImpl(): Numerical result out of range

Poking around the output of lspcu, presumably the problem is related to the CPU MHz value, which is reported as being 0.000:

root@d4b5480eab78:/workdir# lscpu

Architecture: x86_64

CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit

Byte Order: Little Endian

CPU(s): 2

On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1

Thread(s) per core: 1

Core(s) per socket: 1

Socket(s): 2

Vendor ID: GenuineIntel

CPU family: 6

Model: 61

Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz

Stepping: 4

CPU MHz: 0.000

BogoMIPS: 6979.58

L1d cache: 32K

L1i cache: 32K

L2 cache: 256K

L3 cache: 4096K

Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid pni pclmulqdq dtes64 ds_cpl ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch pti fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 bmi2 erms xsaveopt arat

The problem has been replicated on systems running High Sierra and Mojave.

Is this a known issue and/or is there a workaround?

Thanks!

[Tom Brunarski]

Having the same issue. This has started to happen when I updated the docker engine.

[Evi Vanoost]

The problem is CPU MHz: 0.000

One way would be to emulate the CPU MHz from the host and emulate /proc/cpuinfo with an appropriate number.

The proper way would be for Mathworks to fix this.

[Ruben Krueger]

Same issue here

[Ruben Krueger]

@Evi Vanoost How do we emulate /proc/cpuinfo?

[Ruben Krueger]

I think this may be relevant:

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/6047

Answer 1

[Ruben Krueger]

This problem resolved itself by compiling my Matlab code with a newer version of Matlab (2022b instead of 2017b)