Postman manual runner crashes postman after enough (~50) requests

[mallechilie]

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• [X] I have searched the tracker for existing similar issues and I know that duplicates will be closed

Describe the Issue

When doing a manual run with enough requests (50+), postman crashes.

This seems to be a memory issue: There's a clear rise in memory usage until the crash happens.

This crash results in the following issue.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open a new folder with 1 valid request (I used a get ticket from freshdesk)
2. In that request set the following pre-request script:

   if(!pm.collectionVariables.get("counter")){
   pm.collectionVariables.set("counter", 0)
   }
   if(pm.collectionVariables.get("counter") < 1000){
   postman.setNextRequest([name of current request here]);
   console.log(pm.collectionVariables.get("counter"))
   pm.collectionVariables.set("counter", pm.collectionVariables.get("counter") + 1);
   }
   else{
   pm.collectionVariables.unset("counter");
   }

3. Run the folder (1 iteration will be enough)
4. Wait until postman crashes. (In my case, postman crashed before the counter hit 50)

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Operating System

Windows

Postman Version

10.12.11

Postman Platform

Postman App

User Account Type

Signed In User

Additional Context?

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[eberls]

I'm seeing this after about 220 iterations where the helper process grows to about 2.75GB while executing request that is processing pagenated elements of a list (list of target IDs, when queried may have paged results). This is repeatable. Additionally, I'm left with a Runner tab that needs to be force closed on restart. (I'm pulling from an Okta API, and collating results in variables.)

My prereqeust script pulls from a variable to set a query ID, and optionally the continued pagination of results. My test script aggregates the results.

I'm running on MacOS 14.3.1, Postman (Desktop) version 10.24.3, both are up to date as of this writing.