Probable go routine leak with mcp-server
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Library: https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go
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> Grafana links might expire, so images are also included. All graphs, unless otherwise specified are capturing the "last 12 hours". Roughly `2025-08-25 09:41:18 -> 2025-08-26 09:41:18` CDT
There is a potential go routine leak with the mcp server. This was first noticed as a memory leak in grafana, and then drilled down to being caused by go routines.
The initial memory leak chart: snapshot. It does not look terrible, but an obvious upward trend is present.
Tracking go routine count per service in coderd. The go routine count for `http-api` nearly doubles from 1.7k to 3.2k over 2 hours.
There is increase in go routines that seems to correlate with the MCP traffic. Note this is over the last 16 hours.
Here is a profiling drilldown comparing part of the go routine leak to a later moment. MCP sticks out.
This seems to have been an issue for the mcp server in the past: https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go/issues/555
> As early adopters of MCP-Go, we ran into a few challenges around quality and reviews that we initially assumed were part of the bootstrapping phase. In particular, we’ve occasionally encountered leaks and regressions
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It is hard to tell for sure because Coderd restarts so often. So the go routines always come down from a reboot, rather than reduced traffic.
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