[kata-dev] kata-agent getting OOM-killed

Hunt, James O james.o.hunt at intel.com
Mon Nov 16 09:11:49 UTC 2020


>> What are the trade-offs between running agent as init and running it under systemd.
>>
>> There is this interesting bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890681 where the agent gets OOM-killed. That manifests itself with somewhat hard-to-diagnose symptoms. I opened >https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/1111.
>>
>> The solution Qian suggested was to set oom_score_adjust. I investigate that. But that made me wonder about the trade-off between using systemd and agent-as-init. Do we have this documented somewhere?
>>
> I don't think we have explicitly documented it anywhere. Would you mind
>starting one? The trade-off can be identified from several aspects
>including resource footprint, stability and functionality.

We do have https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/wiki/Kata-Images, but it looks like it needs a refresh given all the recent changes.

Cheers,

James
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