High memory usage increase during Red Hat Satellite Capsule synchronization tasks

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Significant memory increase is observed during Capsule synchronization tasks.
  • Capsule synchronization fails with out of memory errors, following can be seen in Satellite task/dynflow logs:

    Error:
    Katello::Errors::Pulp3Error
    
    could not resize shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.1526432271" to 1048576 bytes: No space left on device 
    
    Error:
    Katello::Errors::Pulp3Error
    
    out of memory DETAIL: Failed on request of size 27336 in memory context "ExecutorState". 
    
  • Capsule synchronization fails due to OOM killer.

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite
  • Red Hat Satellite Capsule

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