How to reduce glibc arena size to reduce application memory consumption?
Issue
- How to reduce the memory consumption of processes in the containerized environment?
- How to reduce arena size to application memory consumption?
- How to use malloc_trim(0) properly ?
- We usually run the below command to free the memory to the os .
gdb --batch-silent --eval-command 'print (int)malloc_trim(0)' -p $PID
- Containerised application is getting oom killed by Kubernetes due to high memory consumption
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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