[Bug]: Memory leak?

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

OS/Web Information

• Web Browser: Chrome
• Local OS: macOS, ChromeOS
• Remote OS: Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04
• Remote Architecture: x86-64
• code-server --version: 4.2.0, 4.3.0

Hi,

The memory consumed by the code-server (node) process gradually increases over time, regardless of whether and how the IDE is used. I have tested it multiple times and it has eventually used up all the 8GiB RAM of the server machine in a matter of 2 or so weeks.

Is this a well-known problem? Can I solve it permanently instead of rebooting the sever each time?

Many thanks

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install code-server and run its daemon
2. Continually measure memory usage of the process
3. Wait 😃

Expected

The memory usage should not be monotonically increasing

Actual

It is

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Screenshot/Video

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Does this issue happen in VS Code?

• I cannot reproduce this in VS Code.

Are you accessing code-server over HTTPS?

• I am using HTTPS.

Notes

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[aghasemi]

I also thought to temporarily increase the Cloud Memory from 4GB to 8GB.

My “solution” was adding a line to crontab to restart code-server every 24 hours 😆

[LaCocoRoco]

Have you tried messing with the extensions? That also produced a solution for me 😃)

I’d rather wait for an official fix. But which extension? 😄

Volar Extension used about 700MB per instance in my case. It also felt like it did still run in the background after closing an workspace.