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WalkthroughKarakeep and OpenArchiver Kubernetes manifests now configure Meilisearch to reduce indexing memory usage and limit indexing memory to 2Gb. OpenArchiver also sets an 8Gi maximum memory policy for its Meilisearch container. ChangesMeilisearch memory settings
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change lowers Meilisearch memory use to avoid scheduling problems, but it relies on an experimental option that may slow indexing or change behavior across upgrades. Validate it on representative data before or soon after merging. Pre-merge checks |
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16-16: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 TrivialRecord approval for production use of this experimental option.
The option is enabled in both configuration sites, and Meilisearch runs with
MEILI_ENVset toproduction. Meilisearchv1.13.0documents it as “Experimental RAM reduction during indexing, do not use in production.” Keep this setting only after production indexing behavior and the upgrade plan are explicitly validated and accepted.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @kubernetes/openarchiver/meilisearch-statefulset.yaml:
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On 2026-10-10 Prometheus spent about 11 hours Pending, so no metrics were collected and no alerts were sent. Its VPA had raised the memory request to 12.45 GB, no worker had that much unreserved, and every pod shared the default priority, so the scheduler found nothing it could preempt. The largest reservation in the cluster was openarchiver's Meilisearch at 14.1 GiB. Prometheus and Alertmanager now use a new monitoring PriorityClass (1000000, preempting), so the scheduler can evict lower-priority pods to make room for them instead of leaving alerting down. Nothing noticed the outage either, because the alerting path itself was down. Prometheus now has an always-firing Watchdog alert, which Alertmanager routes only to a webhook that pings a new prometheus-watchdog check on the self-hosted Healthchecks every 5 minutes. The ping URL is built from the existing Healthchecks ping key in 1Password, and OpenTofu defines the check with a 10-minute timeout and 10-minute grace, so Healthchecks emails if Prometheus or Alertmanager stops for about 20 minutes. Meilisearch memory-maps its LMDB index, so much of what VPA measures is reclaimable page cache and its recommendation runs well above what the process needs. The openarchiver namespace's VPA policy now caps the meilisearch container at 8Gi, leaving the other containers on the namespace-wide policy. Meilisearch cannot limit how much it maps, but it can cap indexing memory, which otherwise defaults to two-thirds of the node's RAM in a container without a limit. Both openarchiver and karakeep now set MEILI_MAX_INDEXING_MEMORY to 2Gb and enable MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_REDUCE_INDEXING_MEMORY_USAGE, trading write speed for lower memory use while indexing.
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On 2026-10-10 Prometheus spent about 11 hours Pending, so no metrics were collected and no alerts were sent. Its VPA had raised the memory request to 12.45 GB, no worker had that much unreserved, and every pod shared the default priority, so the scheduler found nothing it could preempt. The largest reservation in the cluster was openarchiver's Meilisearch at 14.1 GiB.
Prometheus and Alertmanager now use a new monitoring PriorityClass (1000000, preempting), so the scheduler can evict lower-priority pods to make room for them instead of leaving alerting down.
Nothing noticed the outage either, because the alerting path itself was down. Prometheus now has an always-firing Watchdog alert, which Alertmanager routes only to a webhook that pings a new prometheus-watchdog check on the self-hosted Healthchecks every 5 minutes. The ping URL is built from the existing Healthchecks ping key in 1Password, and OpenTofu defines the check with a 10-minute timeout and 10-minute grace, so Healthchecks emails if Prometheus or Alertmanager stops for about 20 minutes.
Meilisearch memory-maps its LMDB index, so much of what VPA measures is reclaimable page cache and its recommendation runs well above what the process needs. The openarchiver namespace's VPA policy now caps the meilisearch container at 8Gi, leaving the other containers on the namespace-wide policy. Meilisearch cannot limit how much it maps, but it can cap indexing memory, which otherwise defaults to two-thirds of the node's RAM in a container without a limit. Both openarchiver and karakeep now set MEILI_MAX_INDEXING_MEMORY to 2Gb and enable MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_REDUCE_INDEXING_MEMORY_USAGE, trading write speed for lower memory use while indexing.