diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index 941d571a679273..077810d26ed306 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -603,6 +603,8 @@ function resOnFinish(req, res, socket, state, server) {
   assert(state.incoming.length === 0 || state.incoming[0] === req);
 
   state.incoming.shift();
+  // Reset the .incoming property so that the request object can be gc'ed.
+  if (socket.parser) socket.parser.incoming = null;
 
   // If the user never called req.read(), and didn't pipe() or
   // .resume() or .on('data'), then we call req._dump() so that the