netdata application leaks memory

[bram85]

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Describe the bug

The default netdata installation seems to leak memory. I'm hesitant about reporting upstream, because it seems to behave like that out of the box as provided by this ynh app. I cannot pinpoint how to debug this. Other memory related issues upstream seem to have been fixed quite some versions ago.

Virtual memory graph:

Showing a yunohost service reload_or_restart netdata about halfway.

Context

• Hardware: Linode VPS
• YunoHost version: 11.1.0.2
• I have access to my server: Through SSH
• Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance?: yes
  • If yes, please explain: set tiers and configure some disk space / some memory limits to each tier. Also disabled a few plugins in the hope it would solve the memory leak, to no avail.
• Using, or trying to install package version/branch: 1.36.1~ynh1

Steps to reproduce

Installed netdata from the web interface. Then wait for some time to see the memory consumption grow over time (with netdata itself).

Expected behavior

Bounded memory usage.

[bram85]

The issue appears to have been disappeared after the upgrade to version 1.37.1.