Celery does not release memory

Question

It looks like celery does not release memory after task finished. Every time a task finishes, there would be 5m-10m memory leak. So with thousands of tasks, soon it will use

Answer 1

You might be hitting this issue in librabbitmq. Please check whether or not Celery is using librabbitmq>=1.0.1.

A simple fix to try is: pip install librabbitmq>=1.0.1.