Big changes in configuration crash Vector

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Problem

We're using vector with many source-transform-sink blocks (hundreds of them). I've noticed that config changes works well on-the-fly, but if the change is too big, vector might die (vectordev-a-1 exited with code 139). It happens when the number of source-transform-sink blocks changes by 200 or so (each reading from kafka, writing to S3). So say you have 300 such blocks, and you delete 200 of them and let Vector reload the configuration file, it will most probably die.

Configuration

### MISC ###
[sources.vector_metrics]
type = "internal_metrics"

[sinks.prometheus]
type = "prometheus_exporter"
address = "0.0.0.0:8053"
inputs = ["vector_metrics"]
[api]
enabled = true
address = "0.0.0.0:8686"

### BLOCK NO.1 ###
[sources.kafka_account100_consumer0]
type = "kafka"
auto_offset_reset = "smallest"
bootstrap_servers = "*************************************"
group_id = "test1_consumer0"
topics = [ "100" ]
[sources.kafka_account100_consumer0.librdkafka_options]
"security.protocol" = "ssl"

[transforms.parse_events_account100_consumer0]
type = "remap"
inputs = ["kafka_account100_consumer0"]
source = '''
    . = .message
'''

[sinks.write_s3_account100_consumer0]
type = "aws_s3"
inputs = ["parse_events_account100_consumer0"]
bucket = "my_bucket_name"
key_prefix = "test1/account100/"
region = "us-east-1"
[sinks.write_s3_account100_consumer0.batch]
timeout_secs = 10
[sinks.write_s3_account100_consumer0.encoding]
codec = "text"
[sinks.write_s3_account100_consumer0.buffer]
type = "memory"

### BLOCK NO.2 ###
#..........

#.
#.
#. 300 more blocks

Version

0.25.1

Debug Output

No response

Example Data

The processed data is comprised of json strings

Additional Context

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References

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vectordotdev / vector