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Kubernetes FAQ

Why disable swap on kubernetes

The idea of kubernetes is to tightly pack instances to as close to 100% utilized as possible. All deployments should be pinned with CPU/memory limits. So if the scheduler sends a pod to a machine it should never use swap at all. You don't want to swap since it'll slow things down.

Its mainly for performance.

containers/kubernetes_faq.txt · Last modified: 2021/10/29 21:56 by manu