Description of problem:

governance-policy-framework-addon is passing memory limits on managed cluster

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.7.4, 2.8

How reproducible:

situational

Steps to Reproduce:

1. set up a high numer of policies (512 here)
2. apply them on managed clusters

Actual results:

memory limits are hit and the pods get OOMkilled then restarted and enter a loop of getting oomkilled

Expected results:

no oomkilled loop

Additional info:

512 policies are in place.

the issue was present in 2.7 and is in 2.8. raising the limit with https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7020060 works around the issue but the memory limit here was raised to 2GiB to work around with 2.8.

customer currently on 2.8.0 at time of writing