Proxmox web UI memory leak - starts at 200MB, gradually increases to gigabytes

[marcosscriven]

I've noticed in both Safari and Firefox, and both macOS and Windows, the Proxmox web ui has some kind of memory leak.

It starts of around 200MB, but will grow over a few days to >1GB.

I like to just leave that tab pinned - is there some known fix for this? Are there any logs I can provide as to what's actually using all this?

 

[dcsapak]

on which page do you leave it running ?

 

[marcosscriven]

Generally, either one of the consoles, or the summary page.

 

[dcsapak]

just to clarify you mean the memory usage of the web ui, not the daemons on the server (pveproxy/pvedaemon) ?

 

[marcosscriven]

Yes exactly - just the memory usage in the browser tab, as reported by the OS.

 

[dcsapak]

mhmm... you could try do use the browser debug tools (e.g. in chrome by pressing f12) and do a memory allocation sampling, this will record what parts uses how much memory and so on.
this recording can then be exported and i could take a look at it

 

[marcosscriven]

Thanks - if it happens again, I'll take a sample.

 

[rdmitry0911]

Hi guys, I'm facing the same problem of constantly growing size of a firefox tab with proxmox web interface. During about 3 hours it growed up to 2.5GB in size. There is no such a problem in Google Chrome. I made a snapshot of the memory of this tab at the beginning and at the end of the period

 

[Ember]

I'm also getting this, here is a screenshot of firefox's memory profile
this is not on a summary or console page tho, it's the disks page of the node