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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ # Node V8 Option max-old-space-size ## Problem FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed — Javascript process out of memory This error occurs when the memory allocated for the execution application is less than the required memory when run application. By default the memory limit in Node.js is 512 mb, to solve this issue you need to increasing the memory limit use command —- max-old-space-size .It can be avoid the memory limit issue. ## Command line ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -25,4 +25,5 @@ export NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 - [Can we document --max_old_space_size or is it deprecated?](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7937) - [memory limit in Node.js (and chrome V8)](https://stackoverflow.com/q/7193959) - [NodeJS Documentation](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v12.x/api/cli.html#cli_node_options_options) - [Add max-old-space-size to npmrc #1783](https://github.com/nodejs/help/issues/1783) -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -12,9 +12,17 @@ node --help --v8-options | grep -B 1 -A 1 max-old-space > "Old space" is the biggest and most configurable section of V8's managed (aka garbage-collected) heap (i.e. where the JavaScript objects live), and the --max-old-space-size flag controls its maximum size. As memory consumption approaches the limit, V8 will spend more time on garbage collection in an effort to free unused memory. If heap memory consumption (i.e. live objects that the GC cannot free) exceeds the limit, V8 will crash your process (for lack of alternative), so you don't want to set it too low. Of course, if you set it too high, then the additional heap usage that V8 will allow might cause your overall system to run out of memory (and either swap or kill random processes, for lack of alternative). In summary, on a machine with 2GB of memory I would probably set --max-old-space-size to about 1.5GB to leave some memory for other uses and avoid swapping. - [Source Stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/a/48392705) ## Setting ``` export NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 ``` ## References - [Can we document --max_old_space_size or is it deprecated?](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7937) - [memory limit in Node.js (and chrome V8)](https://stackoverflow.com/q/7193959) - [NodeJS Documentation](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v12.x/api/cli.html#cli_node_options_options) -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ # Node V8 Option max-old-space-size ## Command line ``` node --help --v8-options | grep -B 1 -A 1 max-old-space type: bool default: false --max-old-space-size (max size of the old space (in Mbytes)) type: size_t default: 0 ``` > "Old space" is the biggest and most configurable section of V8's managed (aka garbage-collected) heap (i.e. where the JavaScript objects live), and the --max-old-space-size flag controls its maximum size. As memory consumption approaches the limit, V8 will spend more time on garbage collection in an effort to free unused memory. If heap memory consumption (i.e. live objects that the GC cannot free) exceeds the limit, V8 will crash your process (for lack of alternative), so you don't want to set it too low. Of course, if you set it too high, then the additional heap usage that V8 will allow might cause your overall system to run out of memory (and either swap or kill random processes, for lack of alternative). In summary, on a machine with 2GB of memory I would probably set --max-old-space-size to about 1.5GB to leave some memory for other uses and avoid swapping. - [Source Stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/a/48392705) ## References - [Can we document --max_old_space_size or is it deprecated?](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7937) - [NodeJS Documentation](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v12.x/api/cli.html#cli_node_options_options) -
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