memory leak

[hktalent]

github.com/karlseguin/ccache

[karlseguin]

I don't immediately know. Any context? Was Stop called on the cache? What type of objects are being stored in it? Anything else?

[hktalent]

@karlseguin thanks for you

Using multi-instance and multi-threading using nuclei in encapsulation https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/issues/2357 when, through

• 1 Export the profile of the heap at time point 1: curl -s http://192.168.10.31:6060/debug/pprof/heap > base.heap
• 2 Export the heap profile at time point 2: curl -s http://192.168.10.31:6060/debug/pprof/heap > current.heap
• 3 Compare the difference of the stacks at two time points: go tool pprof --http :8080 --base base.heap current.heap

found when comparing

[karlseguin]

Thanks, that helps, but I'm not sure it's a bug.

ccache.New starts a goroutine. To stop it, Stop() needs to be called. If caches are created and fall out of scope without calling Stop() the goroutine will leak.