[SIG-scale] Meeting Notes 2026-07-09

[Andrew Burden]

7/9/26

Recording: https://youtu.be/J1hcmHlacZU 

Attendees:

Agenda:

• [Vishnu] Added improvements to kube-burner pre-submit as discussed previously

• Build’s kube-burner from scratch: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/18204

• Updates to pre-submit w.r.t other perf tests: https://github.com/kubevirt/project-infra/pull/5169 

• K8s 1.36 provider

• AI for Ryan Hallisey US

• Test job failures Sreeja Varnam IN

• https://testgrid.k8s.io/kubevirt-periodics#periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-performance-kwok&width=20

• CIDR not available?

• Repro locally

• Remove performance cluster jobs Alay Patel US

• These are stale and the cluster is outdated

• https://testgrid.k8s.io/kubevirt-periodics#periodic-kubevirt-performance-cluster-100-density-test&width=20

• https://testgrid.k8s.io/kubevirt-periodics#periodic-kubevirt-performance-cluster-scale-density-test&width=20

• https://kubevirt.io/ci-performance-benchmarks/weekly/periodic-kubevirt-e2e-k8s-1.34-sig-performance/vmi/index.html (Review next time)

• List Nodes count VMI

• Drops to 0 around Jun 7, 2026

• Patch Nodes count VMI

• Doubles from 12 to 26 around May 17, 2026

• avgVirtAPIMemUsage/maxVirtAPIMemUsage went up

• Avg up from 140MB to 150MB staring around May 17, 2026

• Max up from 170MB to 180MB starting around May 17, 2026

• avgVirtControllerIMemUsage/maxVirtControllerMemUsage went up

• Started around May 17, 2026