Increasing memory usage over time

Newrelic memory keeps growing. How can I avoid this situation?

Description

I use newrelic to monitor async segments in my code. Recently I noticed a big memory usage because of shim.js code. Timers get created and callbacks get retained. I don’t know how it might have happened or where it is originating from.

Object×612820 | 2 | 22 665 9288 % | 245 711 28682 % |   Object@5066931 | 4 | 240 % | 182 188 42461 % |   elements::(object elements)[]@6552199 | 5 | 393 2640 % | 393 2640 % |   [962505]::Timeout@5845729node:internal/timers:167 | 5 | 1200 % | 34 5760 % |   _onTimeout::wrappedCallback()@3143791file:///Users/xxx/dev/xxx/xxx-client/node_modules/newrelic/lib/shim/shim.js:1172 | 6 | 640 % | 34 3840 %

You can see that this Object@5066931 retains 182 MB and it consists of timers that retain newrelic callback.

In my code all I do is to call:

newrelic.startSegment("segment", true, () => some_async_method())

Am I doing something wrong? What may be causing this situation?

Expected Behavior

Memory should not grow by newrelic usage.

Troubleshooting or NR Diag results

Steps to Reproduce

Your Environment

node --version v16.12.0

newrelic@8.7.0

Additional context

[iredchuk]

Hi Is there any reason that the issue is closed? We are experiencing the same problem, using newrelic ver. 8.17.1

[jordigh]

Hey @iredchuk

Are you saying you’re experiencing memory leaks when you call something like newrelic.startSegment("segment", true, () => some_async_method()) yourself?

If so and the above debugging suggestions by @michaelgoin don’t help, then I think the same advice applies to you: please go through our technical support so that we may gather more relevant information into the problem.