Node Right-Sizing

Memory bottlenecks, requests vs limits, .NET GC tuning, scale-to-zero on a constrained node

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Start: Right-Sizing a Constrained Node

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Right-Sizing a Constrained NodeOn a small node, memory is almost always the binding constraint — not CPU and not "too many containers." A single-node k3s box (4 vCPU, 7.9 GB RAM, no swap) running ~89 pods was OOM-killing pods even though CPU sat at 26%, because…, not read