Memory that keeps growing

Investigate sustained memory growth and allocation pressure. Look for unbounded caches, retained closures, unremoved listeners, large error objects, detached DOM references and accidentally retained request data. Use heap profiles or repeatable growth tests to validate candidates.

What it returns

Two heap snapshots over a repeated action, with the growing object type and what retains it.

Skip it when

When memory use stays flat over a long session.

Changes

Changes nothing

Sessions

One session

Tools

Chrome DevTools memory snapshots or Node --inspect.

Also called

Allocation and memory retention

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