title: How much RAM can my Kubernetes pod grow to?
body: <p>I'd like to know the current limit on the RAM. (No limit/request was explicitly configured.) </p>
  
  <p>How do I see the current configuration of an existing pod?</p>
  
  <p>[Edit] That configuration would include not only how much memory is now in use, but also the  max-limit, the point at which it would be shut down.</p>
  
  <p>(If I  blow up the heap with huge strings, I see a limit of approx 4 GB, and the Google Cloud Console shows a crash at 5.4 GB (which of course includes more than the Python interpreter), but I don't know where  this comes from. The Nodes have up to 10 GB.)</p>
  
  <p>I tried <code>kubectl get pod id-for-the-pod -o yaml</code>, but it shows nothing about memory.</p>
  
  <p>I am using Google Container Engine.</p>