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Process LocalWeb is using more and more memory (memory leak?)

I'm running Catlight v3.4.2 on macos Sonoma 14.3.1 (MacBook Pro M3).

I can see a process called `LocalWeb` consuming lots and lots of memory on my computer, and impacting other applications. It seems to belong to Catlight.

I'm only connected to GitLab and looking at 1 repo.

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Thanks for reporting, this should be fixed in v3.5. For GitHub and GitLab connectors, we cache the responses in memory, and when there is a lot of activity on a large project, this cache could have grown to a large size. Although we had time-based expiration for it, it apparently was not enough to limit it's growth. We put a size limit on this cache of around 200mb per connection, so the app memory usage should get to normal values now.

yeah, that's way too much memory usage. Can you send the diagnostic report, so we can investigate? To do that, click on the "Help and Feedback" menu in the app -> Send diagnostic report to support.

Done 

Diagnostic report sent to CatLight support. Report id: 26637. Please provide this report id to the support team. If you have not talked to the support team yet, please create a ticket at  https://support.catlight.io/add-ticket

I killed the process on 2 occasions when it had reached 9 and 11 Gb or memory

How much memory is it using?