[🐛 Bug]: Distributor and router pods do not release memory

[DmiDvor]

What happened?

Hi. Deployed a new version of Selenium Grid 4.32.0. Tested for several days. The distributor and router pods increase memory usage when starting new tests. But the memory is not released back when the tests are finished. Is the garbage collector not working? Another question: if I deploy 2 pods for both the distributor and router, will it help to save fault tolerance? If one pod is stopped by OOM-killer, will the second pod continue the execution of what the first pod was doing?

Command used to start Selenium Grid with Docker (or Kubernetes)

helm

Relevant log output

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Operating System

k8s

Docker Selenium version (image tag)

4.32.0

Selenium Grid chart version (chart version)

0.43.2

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[VietND96]

A router can enable 2 replicas. In release 4.35.0, there is an improvement in Distributor, can you try and monitor the memory usage of it?