title: Node.js web app chrome memory usage increasing after every reload
body: <p>I've build a web app using node.js to display information to our users. However I'm seeing an unhealthy increase in the memory usage every time the page is refreshed (<code>location.reload()</code>).</p>
  <p>on first load it's 425MB,
  787MB on the 2nd,
  1075MB on the 3rd,
  1350mb on the 4th etc... I've seen it climb to 5/6GBs</p>
  <p>The only way to fix this is to close the tab and start from a new tab.</p>
  <p>I can't see any increase while the page is sat idle or if you navigate round the page. It's like chrome is keeping the old page every time the page is reloaded. I have tried turning caching off from the dev tools but that didn't do anything. I've tried looking at the memory dev tools but I can't really make heads or tails of it.</p>
  <p>is there a solution to this?</p>