Panel/Holoviews/Bokeh app memory leaks, looking for general best practices

[JoyMonteiro]

I have been facing this issue since nearly two years. I think it has something to do with reading in data within functions that create plots

Panel servable app memory usage

I was digging a little more, and here’s what I learned. I wrote my app as a Parameterized class, and all the big variables were allocated as globals and used within the class methods when needed. Now since these variables are allocated only once, the memory usage stays small even if I open multiple versions of the app. It keeps increasing, but by a very small amount. This is how it looks (the relevant parts): with open('datasets/entity_list_df.pkl', 'rb') as pkl: ENTITY_LIST_WORDCLOUD =…