[Bug]: Suspicious memory leak in process "/usr/bin/python -R -m mpi4py.futures.server"
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System Info
System Info
GPU: H20 96G * 8
Environment: 1.2.0.rc1 and 1.0.0.rc4, both versions have memory leak problem, it seems not related to a specific version
Model: Qwen series, we tested Qwen3-8B, Qwen3-32B and QwQ-32B, it is not related to a specific model.
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Information
- The official example scripts
- My own modified scripts
Tasks
- An officially supported task in the
examplesfolder (such as GLUE/SQuAD, ...) - My own task or dataset (give details below)
Reproduction
Keep sending requests and observe the memory usage, we can see the memory usage will continue to grow.
When test started:
For example, we tested Qwen3-8B with continuous serial transmission of requests "Write a short essay of 1000 words."
After 12 hours:
Expected behavior
No memory leak
actual behavior
Some online services (Qwen2.5-7B / QwQ-32B)have already triggered OOM (Out of Memory) errors, causing process crashes.
additional notes
We already tried [https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/issues/6901][Fix]: Breaking Change: disable nvtx annotation by default. However, this fix doesn't seem to have worked.
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