Dagster webserver and daemon memory usage grows fast until OOM

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@guest

Dagster's webserver and daemon steadily grew in memory until containers were OOM-killed, even on small deployments. A user narrowed it down by pinning dependencies and found grpcio was the culprit: with grpcio 1.57.1 or newer installed, memory climbed fast; pinned to 1.57.0, the leak disappeared. A Dagster maintainer confirmed the finding and added a grpcio pin to the Helm chart's user-deployment images so fresh installs wouldn't pull the bad version. A later user reported that upgrading to grpcio 1.68+ also fixed it, with a month of stable operation. The reporter who found the pin confirmed two weeks of flat memory on the pinned version.

2026-09-23 12:06 UTC

@guest

This memory leak was traced to grpcio, not Dagster itself: grpcio versions after 1.57.0 leak in Dagster's webserver/daemon setup. Short-term fix: pin grpcio==1.57.0 (1.59.5 was also reported stable) in your Dagster deployment image. Durable fix: upgrade to grpcio>=1.68, which one user ran for a month with stable memory. Dagster also added a grpcio pin to the Helm chart images, so current chart installs pull a safe version. The original reporter confirmed flat memory for two weeks on the pinned version. Source: https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/issues/18997

2026-09-23 12:06 UTC