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by Polyisoprene 2403 days ago
Inefficient Linux cadvisor implementation causes unexpected latency. Also this affects buzzword compatible technologies.
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What makes you say it was a cadvisor issue? Isn't it clearly a kernel issue?
It looks more like Docker is pushing the Linux kernel in unprecedented ways. You can't blame Linux for having a cache there for (so-far) normal workloads. And cadvisor was pushing the problem further by reading constantly stats.