Increased memory consumption by kube-apiserver pods

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • kube-apiserver pods on master nodes consume a high amount of memory (several GBs), making the node become unresponsive and therefore requiring a node reboot

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4

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