Memory keeps growing and never releases again

[myxyz]

Describe the issue
native-image in windows Memory keeps growing and never releases again set Xmx or XX:MaxHeapSize no effect

graalvm 20.0.0 CE jdk8 or jdk11 in windows both have

native-image ^ 
-H:TempDirectory=e:/tmp ^ 
--verbose ^ 
--no-server ^ 
--no-fallback ^ 
--enable-all-security-services ^ 
-H:InitialCollectionPolicy=com.oracle.svm.core.genscavenge.CollectionPolicy$BySpaceAndTime ^ 
-H:+ReportExceptionStackTraces ^ 
-H:EnableURLProtocols=http,https ^ 
-H:-UseServiceLoaderFeature ^ 
-J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 ^ 
-R:MaxHeapSize=256M ^ 
-R:MinHeapSize=16M ^ 
--report-unsupported-elements-at-runtime ^ 
--allow-incomplete-classpath ^ 
-H:+AddAllCharsets ^ 
-H:ReflectionConfigurationFiles=d:/eclipse-workspace/host-agent-windows/native-image/reflect-config.json ^ 
-H:ResourceConfigurationFiles=d:/eclipse-workspace/host-agent-windows/native-image/resource-config.json ^ 
-H:JNIConfigurationFiles=d:/eclipse-workspace/host-agent-windows/native-image/jni-config.json ^ 
-jar D:\eclipse-workspace\host-agent-windows\target\host-agent.jar

[doctorpangloss]

This is not a solution, but is memory returned to the system by calling System.gc() frequently?

[viniciusccarvalho]

I have the exact same error. Using GraalVM CE 20.0.0 (build 11.0.6+9-jvmci-20.0-b02, mixed mode, sharing)

Built an app using micronaut and micronaut-data, I set Xmx to 128M and then I send some load into the app.
Running on a container it first crashes at
~192mb, I increase Xmx to 256 it crashes at ~260 up to 512 it crashes at ~560 never ends, went all the way to 2GB and it just keeps eating all the memory available to it.

Running the application on bytecode does not cause any memory leaks, as first I suspected could be the problem, only in native mode that happens

[myxyz]

how to fix it

[cstancu]

Can you please provide steps to reproduce?