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null resultKubernetesCluster & infrastructureJuly 9, 2026

the question

Does a GPU requested only by an initContainer get freed after init finishes?

what came out

No -- it stays billed to the pod for its whole lifetime, because reserved is max(init, regular). An init that asked for 4 GPUs on a workload needing 1 strands 3 of 4, idle and unusable by others, long after init completed. Real cluster, independently verified.

method & receipts

  • Result: null result — an honest negative, reported as it came out.
  • 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/initbill