diff --git a/backend/onyx/connectors/salesforce/connector.py b/backend/onyx/connectors/salesforce/connector.py
index 6fa17c327..02f1aac0f 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/connectors/salesforce/connector.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/connectors/salesforce/connector.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import gc
 import os
 from typing import Any
 
@@ -70,6 +71,9 @@ class SalesforceConnector(LoadConnector, PollConnector, SlimConnector):
         end: SecondsSinceUnixEpoch | None = None,
     ) -> GenerateDocumentsOutput:
         init_db()
+
+        gc.collect()
+
         all_object_types: set[str] = set(self.parent_object_list)
 
         logger.info(f"Starting with {len(self.parent_object_list)} parent object types")
@@ -91,8 +95,11 @@ class SalesforceConnector(LoadConnector, PollConnector, SlimConnector):
         logger.info(f"Found total of {len(all_object_types)} object types to fetch")
         logger.debug(f"All object types: {all_object_types}")
 
+        gc.collect()
+
         # checkpoint - we've found all object types, now time to fetch the data
         logger.info("Starting to fetch CSVs for all object types")
+
         # This takes like 30 minutes first time and <2 minutes for updates
         object_type_to_csv_path = fetch_all_csvs_in_parallel(
             sf_client=self.sf_client,
@@ -101,6 +108,8 @@ class SalesforceConnector(LoadConnector, PollConnector, SlimConnector):
             end=end,
         )
 
+        gc.collect()
+
         updated_ids: set[str] = set()
         # This takes like 10 seconds
         # This is for testing the rest of the functionality if data has
@@ -132,6 +141,8 @@ class SalesforceConnector(LoadConnector, PollConnector, SlimConnector):
                     f"Added {len(new_ids)} new/updated records for {object_type}"
                 )
 
+                gc.collect()
+
         logger.info(f"Found {len(updated_ids)} total updated records")
         logger.info(
             f"Starting to process parent objects of types: {self.parent_object_list}"
@@ -166,6 +177,8 @@ class SalesforceConnector(LoadConnector, PollConnector, SlimConnector):
                     yield docs_to_yield
                     docs_to_yield = []
 
+                    gc.collect()
+
         yield docs_to_yield
 
     def load_from_state(self) -> GenerateDocumentsOutput:
diff --git a/backend/onyx/indexing/indexing_pipeline.py b/backend/onyx/indexing/indexing_pipeline.py
index f4a6e0075..45201d3db 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/indexing/indexing_pipeline.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/indexing/indexing_pipeline.py
@@ -583,10 +583,12 @@ def index_doc_batch(
             for chunk in chunks_with_embeddings
         ]
 
-        logger.debug(
-            "Indexing the following chunks: "
-            f"{[chunk.to_short_descriptor() for chunk in access_aware_chunks]}"
-        )
+        short_descriptor_list = [
+            chunk.to_short_descriptor() for chunk in access_aware_chunks
+        ]
+        short_descriptor_log = str(short_descriptor_list)[:1024]
+        logger.debug(f"Indexing the following chunks: {short_descriptor_log}")
+
         # A document will not be spread across different batches, so all the
         # documents with chunks in this set, are fully represented by the chunks
         # in this set