Restic memory use grows with blobs in one repo
Restic needs nearly 2 GB of memory per run for one repository with about 800 clients, making frequent maintenance expensive
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 8 April 2026 · last reported 9 April 2026
What's going wrong
An operator running a shared repository for hundreds of clients saw each maintenance and backup job take about two gigabytes of memory, which grows with the number of stored blobs.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.