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littlesnitch-linux taking 14.2GB of RAM #39

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@VirInvictus

All I have were the systemctl logs, but I was heavily using Claude Code and Gemini CLI at the time. This was the log from me panicked trying to kill it when I was watching it rapidly grow in BTOP, taking more and more memory:

➜ cat output.txt| grep "Apr 30 1[012345]"
Apr 30 10:42:26 fedora littlesnitch[1229]: not pruning connections history because 22265 <= 1000000
Apr 30 11:42:25 fedora littlesnitch[1229]: not pruning connections history because 22288 <= 1000000
Apr 30 12:42:26 fedora littlesnitch[1229]: not pruning connections history because 22369 <= 1000000
Apr 30 13:42:25 fedora littlesnitch[1229]: not pruning connections history because 22677 <= 1000000
Apr 30 14:42:25 fedora littlesnitch[1229]: not pruning connections history because 22711 <= 1000000
Apr 30 15:33:15 fedora systemd[1]: littlesnitch.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Apr 30 15:33:15 fedora systemd[1]: littlesnitch.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Apr 30 15:33:15 fedora systemd[1]: littlesnitch.service: Consumed 5min 49.667s CPU time over 6h 53min 3.766s wall clock time, 14.2G memory peak, 216K memory swap peak.
Apr 30 15:33:21 fedora systemd[1]: littlesnitch.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Apr 30 15:33:21 fedora systemd[1]: Starting littlesnitch.service - Little Snitch network monitor daemon...
Apr 30 15:33:21 fedora systemd[1]: Started littlesnitch.service - Little Snitch network monitor daemon.
Apr 30 15:33:21 fedora littlesnitch[136253]: Found Linux kernel 6.19
Apr 30 15:33:24 fedora littlesnitch[136253]: did attach eBPF programs
Apr 30 15:33:24 fedora littlesnitch[136253]: Listening on http://127.0.0.1:3031/
Apr 30 15:33:24 fedora littlesnitch[136253]: entering main loop
Apr 30 15:35:35 fedora littlesnitch[136253]: not pruning connections history because 22765 <= 1000000

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This was on 1.0.3, so I haven't tried to replicate it on 1.0.6, but I didn't see anything in the patch logs about it, so figured it's still worth reporting.

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