Thanks for the quick & detailed response ! 

On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 18:09:07 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:

> There have been some small improvements to the WAL, reducing the amount 
> needed for startup. But you will have to upgrade to the latest release. 
> This will not help the current situation you have, as the improvements come 
> after upgrade.
>
> Either way, there is almost never any choice about allocating more memory 
> when you're hitting an OOM. Prometheus always uses the minimum amount of 
> memory it can for operating. If it needs more memory, you need to decrease 
> your metric cardinality or increase the allocated memory. There's no magic 
> fix.
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 3:44 PM hamisa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> thanks for the quick reply. 
>>
>> is there any way for me to disable it, or at least reduce the amount of 
>> memory it consumes? 
>> or for a change reduce the data capacity that being loaded from the wal? 
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>> On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 16:25:06 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> You will need to give the instance more memory in order to complete the 
>>> recovery.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 2:32 PM hamisa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there, 
>>>> I'm running prometheus 2.17 on my openshift 3.9.43 cluster. 
>>>> when the prometheus pod collapse (deleted, evicted ...) the newly 
>>>> created pod start reading the wal segments in addiotion to run prometheus 
>>>> again. 
>>>> in that process the prometheus' pod container get into OOM state, and 
>>>> recreated just afterwards which causes CrashLoopBack to the pod. 
>>>>
>>>> is there any solution to this problem? 
>>>>
>>>> thanks in advance.
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