Differences in memory usage between heapster and os view for a build pod in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

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Issue

  • When running a build (nodejs with headless chrome for testing) we see lot's of the time, the build being killed due to out of memory condition. The problem is, that oc adm top pod is constantly reporting 128 MiB Memory usage for this particular build pod. The limits for the pod are set to 2 GiB for the memory. When checking docker stats for the particular container it reports 1.8 GiB Memory usage. We therefore have a notable difference in memory usage between docker and oc adm top pod and are wondering where this is coming from. Also note, this only happens for build pods. Regular running pods are reporting correct values.

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.x

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