Kong 3.7.1 Exponential memory growth over time.

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Kong version ($ kong version)

3.7.1

Current Behavior

We recently upgraded from 3.3 to 3.71. In last 8 days the memory of proxy grew from 550MB to 1.03GB and eventually got OOM killed. we didn't saw this issue on 3.3.

Nothing changed from our end.. just version upgrade. Please inform me if you need more details. Additionally, I would appreciate any recommendations for debugging steps, areas to investigate, or configuration changes that have successfully addressed similar issues for you.

Expected Behavior

kong 3.3 its much stable:

Steps To Reproduce

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Anything else?

only error message in logs i see is: [error] 1437#0: *582289 [lua] http.lua:962: request_uri(): closed, context: ngx.timer