# Huge memory leak on kiwix

**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/huge-memory-leak-on-kiwix/42109
**Category:** Support apps
**Tags:** kiwix, english
**Created:** [April 19, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/huge-memory-leak-on-kiwix/42109 "2026-04-19T17:55:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![jwqos](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jwqos](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/jwqos)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/huge-memory-leak-on-kiwix/42109/1 "2026-04-19T17:55:27Z")

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**What app is this about, and its version** : wikix (3.8.1~ynh1)  
**What YunoHost version are you running** : 12.1.39  
**What type of hardware are you using** : Raspberry Pi 3, 4+

### Describe your issue

After the last upgrade of kiwix if I set it to visitors access it goes into a memory leak loop consuming all my ram and cpu after awhile. If I set to server users only it does not happen.

### Share relevant logs or error messages

0[|||| 3.2%] Tasks: 108, 442 thr, 141 kthr; 1 running  
1[|||| 3.3%] Load average: 0.31 0.47 0.50  
2[|||| 2.6%] Uptime: 22 days, 11:19:04  
3[0.0%]  
Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||3.46G/7.64G]  
Swp[||||||||||||||||| 2.17G/15.3G]

[Main] [I/O]  
PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM%▽ TIME+ Command  
1020763 kiwix 20 0 7978M 2182M 29224 S 0.0 27.9 0:50.80 /var/www/kiwix/kiwix-serve --address 127.0.0.1 --port 42211 --library /home/yunohost.app/kiwix/library.xml --urlRootLocation=/  
1020765 kiwix 20 0 7978M 2182M 29224 S 0.0 27.9 0:12.06 /var/www/kiwix/kiwix-serve --address 127.0.0.1 --port 42211 --library /home/yunohost.app/kiwix/library.xml --urlRootLocation=/  
1020766 kiwix 20 0 7978M 2182M 29224 S 0.0 27.9 0:12.30 /var/www/kiwix/kiwix-serve --address 127.0.0.1 --port 42211 --library /home/yunohost.app/kiwix/library.xml --urlRootLocation=/  
1020767 kiwix 20 0 7978M 2182M 29224 S 0.0 27.9 0:13.32 /var/www/kiwix/kiwix-serve --address 127.0.0.1 --port 42211 --library /home/yunohost.app/kiwix/library.xml --urlRootLocation=/  
1020768 kiwix 20 0 7978M 2182M 29224 S 0.0 27.9 0:12.51 /var/www/kiwix/kiwix-serve --address 127.0.0.1 --port 42211 --library /home/yunohost.app/kiwix/library.xml --urlRootLocation=/

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### Author: ![jwqos](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jwqos](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/jwqos)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/huge-memory-leak-on-kiwix/42109/2 "2026-04-19T17:56:22Z")

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It lost the configuration of htop, but it’s using 27,9% of my 8GB of ram.

 ![Screenshot From 2026-04-19 19-46-35](https://forum.yunohost.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/57e0e6f4c6909fb8e1d8fd1cd0138825cfcb76ed.png)

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### Author: ![system](https://forum.yunohost.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f59fe8e3ee6b100b4f574d30d6e30479c68b89f0.png) [@system](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/huge-memory-leak-on-kiwix/42109/3 "2026-05-04T17:56:37Z")

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