How to cleanup (purge) a socket connection object?

Hi everybody,

Do we have an option to cleanup socket object without a hard reset?

I'm connecting to a server with a tricky path and I need to try to reconnect with net.connect on any error. But this process consumes memory on every attempt.

Minimal pseudo-like code is as follows:

function MyClass(....){
    this.socket = null 
}

MyClass.prototype.connect = function (){
    this.socket = net.connect(....)
}

var my = new MyClass(..)
my.connect()
my.connect()
my.connect()