<p>It's rather impossible that $var(...) is leaking, but be aware that its value persists across executions of route blocks, the value is reset only by a new assign.</p>
<p>Then $avp() is using shared memory, so not related to pkg.stats output.</p>
<p>I looked at the code for <code>route_if_exists</code> and I discovered that was executing the route block as a top route, not as a sub-route (what route(x) does). I pushed a patch for it. Maybe that was the cause of leak, eventually inside the statsd operation, because route_if_exists doesn't allocate anything itself.</p>

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