Right now it’s mostly the CRI/kubelet interaction (which polls the container runtime for containers) and metrics scraping generating the garbage. Having an inc

Right now it’s mostly the CRI/kubelet interaction (which polls the container runtime for containers) and metrics scraping generating the garbage. Having an incremental CRI watch (vs poll) has been on the backlog for years, but correctness and features have been more important for most people. Several people were looking at this recently as we were squeezing management pods + system processes onto two dedicated cores for telco/edge real-time use cases (the other tens of cores being reserved for workloads). It’s not that hard to fix, it’s just never been the top priority. Real software has curves.