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initbill
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