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Detect a memory leak by watching RSS
AnswerSort processes by resident memory, watch the node process's RSS climb over time, then kill it.
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ps -eo pid,rss,comm --sort=-rss | head → re-sample to confirm RSS keeps growing (a leak, not a spike) → kill <pid>Practice with AI
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Is it possible to delete ReplicaSet without deleting the Pods it created?
Answer Yes, delete the ReplicaSet using the orphan cascade policy, which leaves its Pods running.