<p>If my pod is exceeding the memory requested (but still under the limit) is more memory available at runtime on request or does the pod needs to restarts to allocate more memory?</p>

<p>Memory up to the limit is available to the pod (as long as the host has enough free) at all times. The &quot;request&quot; amount is used for scheduling, and the limit is used for actually restricting the pod to an amount. I would caution against setting too high of a gap between request and limit, as it can result in the node itself exhausting memory.</p>
