Memory Pressure from Working Set Growth
warningResource ContentionUpdated Feb 23, 2026
Container working set memory approaches or exceeds configured limits, causing OOM kills or evictions that disrupt vector search availability.
Technologies:
How to detect:
Monitor container_memory_working_set_bytes approaching kube_pod_container_resource_limits (memory). Correlate with collection_points and collection_vectors growth to detect capacity issues.
Recommended action:
Increase memory limits, enable on-disk payload storage (qdrant_collection_config_params_on_disk_payload), or implement vector quantization (qdrant_collection_config_quantization_scalar_type) to reduce memory footprint.