Severe memory leaks and excessive memory consumption in Next.js development server and Turbopack build caches

Developers face severe performance and stability issues using Next.js with Turbopack and route handlers, including massive memory bloat during local dev server execution, out-of-memory crashes on CI runners, and stale persistent build caches that cause builds to be significantly slower and more memory-intensive than cold builds.

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