diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/home-assistant/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/home-assistant/deployment.yaml
index 087d48b5..ff108fc5 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/home-assistant/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/home-assistant/deployment.yaml
@@ -66,13 +66,15 @@ spec:
             timeoutSeconds: 5
           # ~10k entities. The legacy HAOS VM ran this workload with 16Gi;
           # the 4Gi limit OOM-looped (working set ~3.9Gi, tipped over on
-          # morning load spikes). 8Gi on the resized k8s-edge VM (12Gi).
+          # morning load spikes). 8Gi held on the edge VM but was OOMKilled
+          # again on 2026-07-09 now that the pod schedules on the general
+          # pool (~47Gi nodes), so it is back to the HAOS-era 16Gi.
           resources:
             requests:
               cpu: 500m
               memory: 2Gi
             limits:
-              memory: 8Gi
+              memory: 16Gi
               # No securityContext/privileged: the USB meter is gone (read via
               # MQTT now), which was the only reason HA needed privileged.
         # Reverse-proxy sidecar. ingress-nginx → :8124 → 127.0.0.1:8123.