RAM issue on Jetson Orin Nano when procfs flag set

Product support balenaOS
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Hello,

When using the flag `io.balena.features.procfs: ‘1’` on the Jetson Orin Nano devkit, there is a huge RAM overhead on each process.

My whole application runs on 3Go RAM. When setting this flag to 1, it goes up to 7Go RAM (and I’m not talking about the container RAM of course).

Any idea on what happens here ?

I’m on `Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano 8GB (SD) Devkit NVME`, version `BalenaOS 6.10.26`.

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Hey @avanmalleghem that seems very strange, I can’t think of why that would happen. Can you explain your testing process of this so that I can try and reproduce this on my side. What are you using to monitor the RAM usage, etc.

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I can verify it using the Balena GUI or using tegrastats (even on host). I’m working with ROS so I have something like 40 processes running in a container. And it seems like an overhead on each node/process.