High memory usage by crio system.slice in RHOCP 4.x
Issue
- The processes of interactive sessions which got timed out and respective PIDs are not getting killed.
- High utilization of memory by
crio.servicesystem.slice:
Control Group Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s
/system.slice/crio.service 338 10.1 43.1G - -
- High number of abandoned processes by
crio.service:
$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/crio.service/cgroup.procs | wc -l
25
Note: CRI-O's internal stream-idle-timeout is 15 minutes. Make sure to double check output of above command at 15 minutes interval to make sure that is it the same issue.
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
- 4.x
- CRI-O
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