Chrome memory leak

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: 2.1.1
• Platform / OS version: Docker / node:12.16.1-alpine
• URLs (if applicable): None
• Node.js version: v12.16.1

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Process: /usr/lib/chromium/chrome --extra-plugin-dir=/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins …

The process memory usage above continues to increase.

Also, I’m using dumb-init

Sample Javascript Code

async run() {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ args: ['--no-sandbox'] });
  while(true) {      
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.setCacheEnabled(true);
    await page.close();
  }
  await browser.close();
}

[ghost]

@sdg9670 how can this be a memory leak? And, I assume doing in firefox will grow multiply. And, if this a chrome memory leak then how is this related to Puppeteer? Open a bug here and please read this

[ivictbor]

@ivictbor wdym? could you please provide any link to a code example? thank you in advance.

I’ve just wrote a detailed blog post about simple example with a fix for puppeteer RAM leak issue:

https://devforth.io/blog/how-to-fix-ram-leaking-libraries-like-pupeeteer-easily-universal-way-to-fix-ram-leaks-once-and-forever/