Sattvika’s technical ramblings

A collection of writings that I hope will be useful to someone. Some troubleshooting posts have a TL;DR that might be useful in a pinch.

What affects Kubernetes/cAdvisor memory metrics?

Kubernetes (through cAdvisor) exposes several memory metrics: working set, cache, mapped files, etc. This post contains an incomplete summary of what kind of stuff affects them.

05 March 2025

Issues with inotify MOVE events and Kubernetes Volumes

The root cause was that inotify move events (INMOVE, IN_MOVED_FROM, IN_MOVED_TO) are triggered by rename(2), which does not work when the source and destination paths are on two different mount points

05 January 2025