How to fix The node was low on resource: memory. Threshold quantity: 100Mi, available: 43180Ki

Question

Warning Evicted 6m36s kubelet The node was low on resource: memory. Threshold quantity: 100Mi, available: 43180Ki. Container patient-scheduling was using 1681736Ki, request is 0, has larger consumption of memory. Normal Killing 6m36s kubelet Stopping container <container name>

Answer 1

Hi Rajnish Sharma

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When working with AKS cluster, the best practice is to setup Limits for the POD's defining pod resource requests and limits.

Please have a look on this detailed documentation.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/developer-best-practices-resource-management

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Answer 2

Hi Rajnish Sharma,

Configure memory requests and limits in the pods specification to prevent excessive consumption.

Monitor node utilization and scale up resources if needed.

Ensure the cluster has a sufficient number of nodes to handle workloads effectively.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/developer-best-practices-resource-management

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/node-resource-reservations

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