Container sync service killed by memory limit
A containerized sync service with about 430k files grows its memory outside the runtime heap until the container limit kills it every few days.
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5 public reports · first reported 29 September 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
What's going wrong
A user running a file sync service in Docker on a network storage box with about 430,000 files saw the process grow until the kernel killed it every one to two days.
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