memory-leak

2 articles tagged with memory-leak

July 16, 2026
changelog

Ollama v0.32.1 Fixes MLX Memory Leak, Improves Gemma 4 Tool Calling

Ollama released v0.32.1 on July 16, 2024, addressing a critical MLX model cache memory leak that increased memory usage across requests. The update also improves Gemma 4 tool calling reliability and adds authentication prompts for agent web search features.

June 18, 2026
researchMistral AI

Mistral AI traces 400MB/minute memory leak in vLLM to kernel-level mmap calls outside heap

Mistral AI's engineering team documented their investigation of a memory leak in vLLM that caused 400MB/minute memory growth during disaggregated serving with Mistral Medium 3.1. The leak, which only appeared with specific conditions including graph compilation and NIXL-based KV cache transfer, was eventually traced to mmap allocations outside the traditional heap that standard profiling tools couldn't detect.