# My packetbeat memory is growing continuously

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-packetbeat-memory-is-growing-continuously/258221>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-packetbeat-memory-is-growing-continuously/258221 "2020-12-10T06:12:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mysqldba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@mysqldba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mysqldba)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-packetbeat-memory-is-growing-continuously/258221/1 "2020-12-10T06:12:12Z")

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could anyone help me on this problem?
thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-packetbeat-memory-is-growing-continuously/258221/2 "2020-12-10T06:16:13Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

Are you referring to virtual memory here?

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**Author:** ![mysqldba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@mysqldba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mysqldba)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-packetbeat-memory-is-growing-continuously/258221/3 "2020-12-10T06:22:19Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> Are you referring to virtual memory here?

No，it‘s res memory

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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-packetbeat-memory-is-growing-continuously/258221/4 "2020-12-10T07:38:57Z")

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Hello,

We had memory issues acter enabling mongodb protocol too. Unfortunately the issue that was created for this has been autoclosed...

See [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/10108](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/10108)

Also found

> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/20755>
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> Hi there!
> I have an issue with packetbeat monitoring mongodb traffic, I know this is not the right place to discuss that,...

Might be related?

Grtz

Willem

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-packetbeat-memory-is-growing-continuously/258221/5 "2021-01-07T09:39:01Z")

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