Systemd is using multiple gigabytes of memory with a large number of mounts
Issue
- We are seeing systemd consume multiple gigabytes of memory
- We are seeing high load on our server
- Pods are taking a long time to start
- We have a large number of mounts (over 1000) in
/proc/1/mountinfo
on our server - We have a large number of containers running with emptyDir, pvcs, secrets, volumes and configmaps
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 7
- OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
- 3
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