# Kong ingress high memory usage (V1.14.5)

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-ingress-high-memory-usage-v1-14-5/8053>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** kubernetes\
**Created:** [March 15, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-ingress-high-memory-usage-v1-14-5/8053 "2021-03-15T18:03:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![matt-nguyen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/matt-nguyen/32/2642_2.png) [@matt-nguyen](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/matt-nguyen)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-ingress-high-memory-usage-v1-14-5/8053/1 "2021-03-15T18:03:26Z")

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I am having memory problems with increasing resource consumption every day from Kong. I applied every solution to mitigate the memory Kong issue from before but still was ineffective. Some solutions I apply such as:

- Reduce worker process Kong (= 1)
- Install the latest version (1.14.5)

After 2 weeks my memory Kong has increased to 1G RAM, while this is just a test environment and the number of requests is very limited. Will VM Lua use the algorithm to automate resource management? If so, I would probably use the resource limit k8s to limit this.  
I use Kubernetes init from Kops and running on AWS. Please help me, thank you !

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**Author:** ![shane](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/shane/32/2433_2.png) [@shane](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/shane)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-ingress-high-memory-usage-v1-14-5/8053/2 "2021-04-12T14:50:35Z")

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Hi @matt-nguyen,

Does this issue still persist? Did you end up changing resource limits to deal with this problem?

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**Author:** ![matt-nguyen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/matt-nguyen/32/2642_2.png) [@matt-nguyen](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/matt-nguyen)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-ingress-high-memory-usage-v1-14-5/8053/3 "2022-02-08T06:45:03Z")

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Hi @shane . I still have this issue happening. I have now switched to using AWS EKS with Kong ingress image v2.1 (kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller:2.1). However, things still don’t improve and often go beyond the resources that affect the system.

Do you have any suggestions to fix this problem. Thank you !

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