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Make Daemon Memory Killer be the default for Sidekiq

Follow up https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure/-/issues/10930#note_387183013.

We have two Sidekiq memory killers: legacy memory killer and daemon memory killer.

We should remove the legacy memory killer in the long term, because:

Before remove legacy memory killer, we need to make daemon memory killer be the default for Sidekiq.

Some updates to allow people to find relative information easier in the future:

  • from the MR discussion !41847 (comment 412155912), Gitlab.com VM is using the legacy memory killer. But we do not seem much impact to make daemon memory killer as default one.
  • what is the potential impact, and what is the benefit of daemon memory killer: !41847 (comment 412020465)
Edited by Qingyu Zhao