Systemd is exhibiting high cpu and load with a large number of mounts
Issue
- We are seeing systemd consumiming 30-100% cpu
- We are seeing high systemd cpu and our system load is over 5
- 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 secrets, volumes an configmaps
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 7
- 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Core OS (RHCOS)
- 8
- OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
- 3
- 4
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