From 90a04b96a33b6524319eaa1f0e9832b3d16a3522 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roger Oriol <rogi23696@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:15:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] give whisper pod more memory

---
 llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml b/llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml
index 1d955be..1915dfb 100644
--- a/llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml
+++ b/llamacpp/deployment-stt.yaml
@@ -64,12 +64,15 @@ spec:
         - name: wyoming
           containerPort: 10300
         resources:
+          # faster-whisper `small` is ~244M params (fp16 ~500 MiB weights)
+          # plus CTranslate2 runtime / workspace buffers during decode.
+          # 1 GiB OOM-kills during model load; 2 GiB gives headroom.
           requests:
             cpu: "100m"
-            memory: "256Mi"
+            memory: "512Mi"
           limits:
             cpu: "1000m"
-            memory: "1Gi"
+            memory: "2Gi"
         volumeMounts:
         - name: data
           mountPath: /data