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SCALING KUBERNETES WORKLOADS WITH NODE SWAP

kubernetes.io5 min read

Summary from the TLDR DevOps newsletter

Kubernetes support for running nodes with swap enabled reached General Availability in v1.34. Tests using Local SSDs for swap showed density gains of up to 3× across workloads like kernel builds and isolated Python sandboxes. One benchmark scaled concurrent Python sessions from 80 to 240 by offloading dormant memory to disk.