Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Update docs and mention explicit close required change in v1.8.11

Open
#445 16 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the v1.8.11 change related to connection closing and the existing documentation for WebSocket lifecycle management. Update the relevant documentation to mention that callers must explicitly close connections, then verify that the v1.8.11 behavior and requirement are described accurately.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Problem

In our production systems we upgraded to latest patch version and we noticed excessive memory usage, seemed to be goroutine leak as far as I checked. Memory went up but when connections count went down, memory stayed roughly at the same level.

Probably on close etc it was not cleaned up properly, but I did not dig any further - for now we rolled back to version v1.8.10 and all is back to normal.

Our use-case:
We have roughly opened 50k websockets on peak time at day, 500 messages pushed per second, 30 new websockets made per second, 30 old websockets closed per second.

Also for each websocket connection we execute in separate goroutine PING-PONGer to prevent websockets closing for clients under some circumstances.

Maybe it's some edge case with our usage, but for us it seems regression introduced.
If I can help anyhow more then let me know 🙏

Dominant language
Go
Stars
5.5k
Forks
377
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from coder/websocket

All issues in coder/websocket

Similar issues

More Go issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.