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Troubleshooting Topology Management — Examine the memory manager state on a node

Let us first deploy a sample Guaranteed pod whose specification is as follows Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: guaranteed spec: containers: - name: guaranteed image: consumer imagePullPolicy: Never resources: limits:

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Let us first deploy a sample Guaranteed pod whose specification is as follows Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: guaranteed spec: containers: - name: guaranteed image: consumer imagePullPolicy: Never resources: limits: cpu: "2" memory: 150Gi requests: cpu: "2" memory: 150Gi command: ["sleep","infinity"] ``` Next, log into the node where it was deployed and examine the state file in /var/lib/kubelet/memory_manager_state Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```json { "policyName":"Static", "machineState":{ "0":{ "numberOfAssignments":1, "memoryMap":{ "hugepages-1Gi":{ "total":0, "systemReserved":0, "allocatable":0, "reserved":0, "free":0 }, "memory":{ "total":134987354112, "systemReserved":3221225472, "allocatable":131766128640, "reserved":131766128640, "free":0 } }, "nodes":[ 0, 1 ] }, "1":{ "numberOfAssignments":1, "memoryMap":{ "hugepages-1Gi":{ "total":0, "systemReserved":0, "allocatable":0, "reserved":0, "free":0 }, "memory":{ ``` It can be deduced from the state file that the pod was pinned to both NUMA nodes, i.e. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```json "numaAffinity":[ 0, 1 ], ``` Pinned term means that pod's memory consumption is constrained (through cgroups configuration) to these NUMA nodes. This automatically implies that Memory Manager instantiated a new group that comprises these two NUMA nodes, i.e. 0 and 1 indexed NUMA nodes. In order to analyse memory resources available in a group,the corresponding entries from NUMA nodes belonging to the group must be added up. … Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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