Description of problem:

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

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create OCP cluster with 500 worker nodes

2. Execute cluster-density-v2 and OVN live migration using the job 

https://jenkins-csb-openshift-qe-mastern.dno.corp.redhat.com/job/scale-ci/job/liqcui-e2e-benchmarking-multibranch-pipeline/job/ovn-live-migration/420/console 

Actual results:

The RAM of the SDN pod increased a lot during the OVN live migration, it seems there is a memory leak, the RAM reached to 36.1GB before the node first rebooted(The highest RAM size of SDN Pod we observed is 42.3GB)

The RAM of SDN consumed most of the worker nodes RAM resource, the Performance decreased a lot in OCP with 500 worker nodes. 

We have tested a similar workload on OCP with 250 worker nodes(2,000 namespace/20,000pods), but the same workload failed on OCP with 500 worker nodes. The OCP cluster does not support more workload, even if we have more worker nodes during OVN live migration testing. That means the SDN pod consumes more RAM resources than OCP with 250 worker nodes under the same condition.

Expected results:

Need to optimize and find why the SDN Pods consume so much RAM

Additional info:

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Affected Platforms:

Is it an

1. internal CI failure
2. customer issue / SD
3. internal RedHat testing failure

If it is an internal RedHat testing failure:

• Please share a kubeconfig or creds to a live cluster for the assignee to debug/troubleshoot along with reproducer steps (specially if it's a telco use case like ICNI, secondary bridges or BM+kubevirt).

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• Did it happen in different CI lanes? If so please provide links to multiple failures with the same error instance
• Did it happen in both sdn and ovn jobs? If so please provide links to multiple failures with the same error instance
• Did it happen in other platforms (e.g. aws, azure, gcp, baremetal etc) ? If so please provide links to multiple failures with the same error instance
• When did the failure start happening? Please provide the UTC timestamp of the networking outage window from a sample failure run
• If it's a connectivity issue,
• What is the srcNode, srcIP and srcNamespace and srcPodName?
• What is the dstNode, dstIP and dstNamespace and dstPodName?
• What is the traffic path? (examples: pod2pod? pod2external?, pod2svc? pod2Node? etc)

If it is a customer / SD issue:

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  • If the issue is in a customer namespace then provide a namespace inspect.
  • If it is a connectivity issue:
    • What is the srcNode, srcNamespace, srcPodName and srcPodIP?
    • What is the dstNode, dstNamespace, dstPodName and dstPodIP?
    • What is the traffic path? (examples: pod2pod? pod2external?, pod2svc? pod2Node? etc)
    • Please provide the UTC timestamp networking outage window from must-gather
    • Please provide tcpdump pcaps taken during the outage filtered based on the above provided src/dst IPs
  • If it is not a connectivity issue:
    • Describe the steps taken so far to analyze the logs from networking components (cluster-network-operator, OVNK, SDN, openvswitch, ovs-configure etc) and the actual component where the issue was seen based on the attached must-gather. Please attach snippets of relevant logs around the window when problem has happened if any.

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