Hi, We get this message in the logs about twice a day since the update to Discourse 1.6.0: Sidekiq is consuming too much memory (using: 532.09M) for forum.detendusdupad.com, restarting Is it a normal behaviour, a misconfiguration or is Sidekiq actually leaking? The UNICORN_WORKERS value is set…

Sidekiq is consuming too much memory, restarting

codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 24, 2018, 12:19am 37

Almost certainly a scheduled daily task cc @sam

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