Large field caps requests can cause memory pressure in smaller heaps #110130
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Description
When using a smaller heap, and gathering a large number of field caps, the memory pressure can be pretty large.
For example, some of the smaller heap sizes seen are < 1GB in size, but its possible for a field-caps response to use more than 200MB. One API request taking >20% of heap can cause issues.
This issue is to track two possible things:
These are rather, ambitious and potentially ambiguous questions. Opening this issue for potential discussion.
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