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gpuhardwall
confirmedKubernetesCluster & infrastructureJuly 8, 2026
the question
On Kubernetes, does a max-priority GPU pod always get in by preempting others?
what came out
No -- admission strictly precedes preemption. An exhausted namespace quota rejects the pod at creation, so a max-priority pod on a full node evicts nobody even though it would otherwise preempt 2 victims. Two hard walls, exact API-state counts, independently verified.
method & receipts
- Result: confirmed
- Pre-registered — the prediction was written down and committed before the run.
- Reproducible — one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
- Independently reviewed — an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
- Machine-readable claims — every reported number, in a checkable file.
- Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.
→ read the code and re-run it
github.com/v-code01/gpuhardwall