On 2024-10-27 16:23:44 +0100, Costa Alexoglou wrote: > The container limit was 16GB of RAM, and as soon as this limit was reached, > there was no restart or OOM errors, rather than a huge drop in memory (image > `ContainerRelativeAbsolute`). [...] > 2. What is happening on the OS level when suddenly 15GB of file cache is > getting erased (image `ContainerRelativeAbsolute`)? I would expect for > incremental deletes rather than so many GB of cache being evicted.
I don't know if Docker does anything strange here. I can think of two
scenarios which would normally result in a sudden drop in filesystem
cache size:
1) A large file (or many smaller files) which is cached is deleted
2) Something else briefly needs a lot of RAM, evicting data from the
cache.
Both can happen in a database (for example, a large sort operation might
need a few GBs of either RAM or temporary files, depending on your
work_mem settings), but I wouldn't expect them to happen just before the
configured limit is reached. So I'd double check the logs if there are
any errors.
hp
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