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Jun 15, 2026

Memory leak M4300 12.0.19.21

Hello

 

We upgraded to 12.0.19.21 in hope that if fixes random crashes of our M4300 stacks, we now observer memory leak in SCRIPT  process. 

We took output of "show process memory" in hourly intervals on friday and extra output on Monday morning

 

TimeSCRIPT CurrentAllocatedΔ from baseline
11:154,527,712baseline
12:154,539,920+12,208
13:154,553,808+26,096
14:304,571,840+44,128
15:204,582,144+54,432
3 days later 10:155,480,944+953,232

 

 

There is slow leak and no memory is Freed.

 

Is there a way to restart/disable this single process to stop switches from crashing eventually?

 

Regards

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