Pods are not getting allocated evenly on worker nodes in OpenShift

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Why RHOCP allocates more pods to particular nodes causing resource crunch on them when other nodes have more resources available?
  • Is the Scheduler scheduling pods incorrectly?
  • How Scheduler schedules the pods in OpenShift?
  • A node system load is very high, while other nodes have available resources.

Environment

  • Red Hat Openshift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • 3
    • 4
  • Scheduler

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