Possible memory leak

[BitProcessor]

Hi,

I was looking at my flux namespace today to follow along a Helm release when I noticed the memory usage of the helm -operator container, roughly 2GB of RAM !

Could this be a memory leak somewhere? I'm running version 1.2.0

[BitProcessor]

Update, checked on 2 other k8s clusters, found one using 1.5GB of RAM (91d up) and one using about 650MB of RAM (82d up). Seems related to #427 at first sight?

[pjbgf]

Processing helm charts can be a resource intensive operation. Given that this project is now in "Migration and security support only", it is unlikely that any performance/resource consumption improvements will be merged.

For better resource optimisation you are better off migrating to Flux 2 and using helm-controller instead. That new controller has a caching feature which decreases the resource consumption throughout of its lifecycle.

More information about the Flux 2 transition timetable can be found at: https://fluxcd.io/docs/migration/timetable/.