To prevent memory leaks or other resource issues in [cluster addons](../../cluster/addons/) from consuming all the resources available on a node, Kubernetes sets resource limits on addon containers to limit the CPU and Memory resources they can consume (See PR [#10653](http://pr.k8s.io/10653/files) and [#10778](http://pr.k8s.io/10778/files)).
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For directions on how to detect if addon containers are hitting resource limits, see the [Troubleshooting section of Compute Resources](../user-guide/compute-resources.md#troubleshooting).
### Allowing minor node failure at startup
For various reasons (see [#18969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/18969) for more details) running
`kube-up.sh` with a very large `NUM_NODES` may fail due to a very small number of nodes not coming up properly.
Currently you have two choices: restart the cluster (`kube-down.sh` and then `kube-up.sh` again), or before
running `kube-up.sh` set the environment variable `ALLOWED_NOTREADY_NODES` to whatever value you feel comfortable
with. This will allow `kube-up.sh` to succeed with fewer than `NUM_NODES` coming up. Depending on the
reason for the failure, those additional nodes may join later or the cluster may remain at a size of
