The fixed leak was accompanied by these cache.log errors:
ERROR: worker I/O push queue for ... overflow: ...
I/O queue overflows during disk read requests log the same error but do
not leak memory. Repeated overflows during disk write requests could
eventually exhaust IPC shared memory:
ERROR: ... exception: run out of shared memory pages for IPC I/O
With IPC memory exhausted due to leaks, rock disk I/O stops forever.