From fac66de43882d0e9963a89dc97e6dcd044273a1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Turner Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 10:18:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about CPU limits --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2ca19bc9..7ef9e1d1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ For clusters of more than 100 nodes, allocate at least These numbers are based on [scalability tests](https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/issues/124#issuecomment-318394185) at 30 pods per node. +Note that if CPU limits are set too low, kube-state-metrics' internal queues will not be able to be worked off quickly enough, resulting in increased memory consumption as the queue length grows. If you experience problems resulting from high memory allocation, try increasing the CPU limits. + ### kube-state-metrics vs. Heapster [Heapster](https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster) is a project which fetches