vmware / vmware/photon

Photon 3.0 cgroup exhaustion. VM shuts down with CPU disabled

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Description

Describe the bug

What we are seeing is, we use photon 3.0 as the OS for our Tanzu K8S nodes. What we are seeing is randomly we see an error cgroups exhaution. then we see the VM reboot, and in vCenter events it shows cpu has been disabled

Reproduction steps

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Haven't been able to reproduce manually, it just happens randomly.

Expected behavior

How do we find out whats causing the cgroup exhaustion and in return causing photon kernel to disable cpu and reboot itself

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Research direction

No files, tests, or reproducible entry point are named. Start by reviewing the cgroup exhaustion and vCenter CPU-disabled events from the Tanzu Kubernetes node; done means identifying the cause of the exhaustion and the resulting reboot or documenting a supported mitigation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
kubernetes, linux
Domain
infrastructure, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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