I'm happy to help participate in figuring out what's going wrong.
At the 96 hour mark it hit 2.5GB, 64.6%. I reverted the seven MariaDB
packages back to 10.5.15, and the problem has disappeared. mariadbd is
holding steady at 135MB, 3.4%.
- Bug#1027337: mariadb-server-10.5: Huge increase in memory ... Xan Charbonnet
- Bug#1027337: Update Xan Charbonnet
- Bug#1027337: Update 2 Xan Charbonnet
- Bug#1027337: second that bug Andreas Laut
- Bug#1027337: second that bug Julien Banchet
- Bug#1027337: second that bug Andreas Laut
- Bug#1027337: "Starting cleanup" Xan Charbonnet
- Bug#1027337: mariadb-server-10.5: Huge increase in me... Matteo Valsasna
- Bug#1027337: [debian-mysql] Bug#1027337: mariadb-... Faustin Lammler
- Bug#1027337: [debian-mysql] Bug#1027337: mariadb-serv... Xan Charbonnet
- Bug#1027337: [debian-mysql] Bug#1027337: Bug#1027... Faustin Lammler
- Bug#1027337: [debian-mysql] Bug#1027337: mariadb-serv... Matteo Valsasna