title: Pod in pending state due to Insufficient CPU
body: <p>On my GCE Kubernetes cluster I can no longer create pods.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Warning FailedScheduling    pod (www.caveconditions.com-f1be467e31c7b00bc983fbe5efdbb8eb-438ef) failed to fit in any node
  fit failure on node (gke-prod-cluster-default-pool-b39c7f0c-c0ug): Insufficient CPU
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Looking at the allocated stats of that node</p>
  
  <pre><code>Non-terminated Pods:        (8 in total)
    Namespace         Name                                        CPU Requests    CPU Limits  Memory Requests Memory Limits
    ---------         ----                                        ------------    ----------  --------------- -------------
    default           dev.caveconditions.com-n80z8                            100m (10%)  0 (0%)      0 (0%)      0 (0%)
    default           lamp-cnmrc                                  100m (10%)  0 (0%)      0 (0%)      0 (0%)
    default           mongo-2-h59ly                                   200m (20%)  0 (0%)      0 (0%)      0 (0%)
    default           www.caveconditions.com-tl7pa                            100m (10%)  0 (0%)      0 (0%)      0 (0%)
    kube-system           fluentd-cloud-logging-gke-prod-cluster-default-pool-b39c7f0c-c0ug       100m (10%)  0 (0%)      200Mi (5%)  200Mi (5%)
    kube-system           kube-dns-v17-qp5la                              110m (11%)  110m (11%)  120Mi (3%)  220Mi (5%)
    kube-system           kube-proxy-gke-prod-cluster-default-pool-b39c7f0c-c0ug              100m (10%)  0 (0%)      0 (0%)      0 (0%)
    kube-system           kubernetes-dashboard-v1.1.0-orphh                       100m (10%)  100m (10%)  50Mi (1%)   50Mi (1%)
  Allocated resources:
    (Total limits may be over 100%, i.e., overcommitted. More info: http://releases.k8s.io/HEAD/docs/user-guide/compute-resources.md)
    CPU Requests  CPU Limits  Memory Requests Memory Limits
    ------------  ----------  --------------- -------------
    910m (91%)    210m (21%)  370Mi (9%)  470Mi (12%)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Sure I have 91% allocated and can not fit another 10% into it. But is it not possible to over commit  resources?</p>
  
  <p>The usage of the server is at about 10% CPU average</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wBSuc.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wBSuc.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Would be a shame if I can not use more ressources.</p>