String memory leaks? (help me understand why the retainers on strings go up)

[jasonwilliams]

Version: v8.9.1
Platform: Linux hashweb 4.4.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:07:12 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have an IRC bot who's memory usage goes up ever so slightly every few hours.
When taking snapshots and inspecting with dev tools the memory usage seems to be string objects, and they seem to be coming from the core.

I have a screenshot here:

Why are strings like "[object Int8Array]" being stored and remaining there, i've yet to find good docs on the Memory profiler, so not sure how to better debug this, but most of these tree's fall into the core.

Thanks

[cjihrig]

Can you ask general support questions at https://github.com/nodejs/help please. This issue tracker is for bug reports and feature requests to Node core.

they seem to be coming from the core.

I'm not sure what modules you're using, but just about everything will look like it's coming from core if you trace the references back far enough. In that image, Connection() might be a good place to start looking.