Bug 1730325

Summary: [Release Note] Every 'podman exec' invocation ends up using a bit of unreclaimable slab
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Reporter: Dan Macpherson <dmacpher>
Component: documentationAssignee: Dan Macpherson <dmacpher>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: RHOS Documentation Team <rhos-docs>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 15.0 (Stein)CC: aarcange, agurenko, aquini, arozansk, aschultz, aweiteka, bbaude, bdobreli, chjones, cye, dciabrin, dornelas, dwalsh, eparis, gscrivan, imcleod, jeckersb, jligon, jshortt, llong, lmiccini, longman, lsm5, lwoodman, mariel, mburns, mheon, michele, mpatel, mschuppe, nalin, nyelle, pdwyer, pgrist, ptalbert, pthomas, rmanes, salmy, sasha, sgolovat, skramaja, smilner, stalexan, syangsao, takito, toneata, vrothber, wchadwic, yprokule
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Triaged, ZStream
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Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard: docs-accepted
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Known Issue
Doc Text:
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 now uses Podman instead of Docker to manage containers on each host. Red Hat Engineering is currently investigating memory leaks at different levels (podman exec, SElinux and kernel) which can cause a system to crash after a few days. OpenStack Platform nodes, free memory runs low and the eventual lack of memory kills processes. These process do not become responsive again. OpenStack Platform 15 uses `podman exec` mostly for container health checks. As a method to delay the problem, disable these health checks. On the undercloud, set the 'container_healthcheck_disabled' parameter to 'True'. On the Overcloud, set 'ContainerHealthcheckDisabled' to True in an environment file.
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Clone Of: 1699202 Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-09-10 14:08:30 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1699202    
Bug Blocks: 1623890, 1697561, 1727099    

Comment 10 Dan Macpherson 2019-09-10 14:08:30 UTC
Bug no longer applies to GA. Closing.