FATAL ERROR CALL AND RETRY LAST Allocation failed - process out of memory

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Node version is v0 11 13  Memory usage during crash according to sudo top not raises over 3   Code that reproduces this error   var request   require  request   var nodedump   require  nodedump    request get  http   pubapi cryptsy com api php method marketdatav2  function err res        var data     console log   Data received          data   JSON parse res body      console log   Data parsed            data   nodedump dump data      console log   Data dumped             console log  data        To check if that a recursion stack size problem I have ran next code with --stack-size 60000 parameter  var depth   0    function recurse            log at every 500 calls        depth   500     console log depth       recurse            and have got  264500  Segmentation fault   Then I ran code which gives me FATAL ERROR  CALL AND RETRY LAST Allocation failed - process out of memory with the same --stack-size 60000 parameter and haven t got Segmentation fault    So I conclude CALL AND RETRY LAST has nothing common with the recursion stack size   How could I solve this problem  I believe there is enough free memory on my computer to finish this task successfully   There are similar questions on stackoverflow but none of this questions are about CALL AND RETRY LAST that s why I created separate question

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Note  see the warning in the comments about how this can affect Electron applications   As of v8 0 shipped August 2017  the NODE OPTIONS environment variable exposes this configuration  see NODE OPTIONS has landed in 8 x    Per the article  only options whitelisted in the source  note  not an up-to-date-link   are permitted  which includes  --max old space size   Note that this article s title seems a bit misleading - it seems NODE OPTIONS had already existed  but I m not sure it exposed this option   So I put in my  bashrc  export NODE OPTIONS --max old space size 4096

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Just a variation on the answers above     I tried the straight up node command above without success  but the suggestion from this Angular CLI issue worked for me - you create a Node script in your package json file to increase the memory available to Node when you run your production build     So if you want to increase the memory available to Node to 4gb  max-old-space-size 4096   your Node command would be node --max-old-space-size 4096   node modules  angular cli bin ng build --prod    increase or decrease the amount of memory depending on your needs as well - 4gb worked for me  but you may need more or less    You would then add it to your package json  scripts  section like this      prod    node --max-old-space-size 4096   node modules  angular cli bin ng build --prod   It would be contained in the scripts object along with the other scripts available - e g     scripts          ng    ng        start    ng serve        build    ng build        test    ng test        lint    ng lint        e2e    ng e2e        prod    node --max-old-space-size 4096  node modules  angular cli bin ng build --prod      And you run it by calling npm run prod  you may need to run sudo npm run prod if you re on a Mac or Linux    Note there may be an underlying issue which is causing Node to need more memory - this doesn t address that if that s the case - but it at least gives Node the memory it needs to perform the build

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I lost some days with this problem     until I found that in some file I was importing one static file  a built file  It make the build to never end  Something like   import PropTypes from     static build prop-types      Fixing to the real source solved all the problem   Sharing my solution

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usr bin env node --max-old-space-size 4096 in the ionic-app-scripts js dint work But after Modifying  the following file it worked node modules  bin ionic-app-scripts cmd By adding   IF EXIST  quot   dp0 node exe quot     quot   dp0 node exe quot    quot   dp0   ionic app-scripts bin ionic-app-scripts js quot       ELSE    SETLOCAL  SET PATHEXT  PATHEXT   JS     node --max old space size 4096   quot   dp0   ionic app-scripts bin ionic-app-scripts js quot

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Anyone getting this error with Azure build pipelines  try the below step to change environment variable of build agent  Add an Azure build pipeline task -  Azure powershell script Inlinescript before Compile with below settings  - task  AzurePowerShell 3   displayName   Azure PowerShell script  InlineScript    inputs      azureSubscription   NYCSCA Azure Dev Test  ea91a274-55c6-461c-a11d-758ef02c2698       ScriptType  InlineScript     Inline    Environment   SetEnvironmentVariable  NODE OPTIONS    --max old space size 16384    Machine        FailOnStandardError  true     azurePowerShellVersion  LatestVersion

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To solve this issue you need to run your application by increasing the memory limit by using the option --max old space size  By default the memory limit of Node js is 512 mb   node --max old space size 2000  server js

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My working solution is    Install cross-env npm install --save-dev cross-env or npm install -g cross-env  File package json add new build script e g       build prod ios    cross-env NODE OPTIONS  --max-old-space-size 8192  ionic cordova build ios --prod --release       Use that command to build next time  npm run build prod ios   Problem solved

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I was facing this issue in ionic and tried many solutions but solved this by running this   For MAC  node --max-old-space-size 4096  usr local bin ionic cordova build android --prod  For Windows  node --max-old-space-size 4096  Users  your user  AppData Roaming npm node modules ionic bin ionic cordova build windows --prod

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npm install -g increase-memory-limit   increase-memory-limit  OR   Navigate to  appdata  -  npm folder or C  Users  user name  AppData Roaming npm Open ng cmd in your favorite editor Add --max old space size 8192 to the IF and ELSE block   now ng cmd file looks like this after the change    IF EXIST    dp0 node exe         dp0 node exe   --max old space size 8192     dp0 node modules  angular cli bin ng       ELSE      SETLOCAL    SET PATHEXT  PATHEXT   JS       node  --max old space size 8192     dp0 node modules  angular cli bin ng

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I was seeing this issue when I was creating a bundle to react-native  Things I tried and didn t work    Increasing the node --max old space size  intrestingly this worked locally for me but failed on jenkins and I m still not sure what goes wrong with jenkins Some places mentioned to downgrade the version of node to 6 9 1 and that didn t work for me either  I would just like to put this here as it might work for you    Thing that did work for me  I was importing a really big file in the code  The way I resolved it was by including it in the ignore list in  babelrc something like this          presets     react-native         plugins     transform-inline-environment-variables         ignore       json   filepathToIgnore ext       It was a  js file which did not really needed transpiling and adding it to the ignore list did help

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An alternative solution is to disable the AOT compiler   ng build --prod --aot false

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this error occurs when required memory allocated for execution is less than memory required for running process  By default  Node memory size is 512 mb to increase this you need to type the following command    node --max-old-space-size   lt NewSize gt   lt fileName gt

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sudo npm i -g increase-memory-limit   Run from the root location of your project     increase-memory-limit   This tool will append --max-old-space-size 4096 in all node calls inside your node modules  bin   files     Node js version    8 - DEPRECATION NOTICE  Since NodeJs V8 0 0  it is possible to use the option --max-old-space-size  NODE OPTIONS options       export NODE OPTIONS --max old space size 4096

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If you have a look at the source  github v8  it seems that you try to reserve a very big object According to my experience it happens if you try to parse a huge JSON object  but when I try to parse your output with JSON and node0 11 13  it just works fine   You don t need more --stack-size  you need more memory  --max new space size and or --max old space size   The only hint I can give you beside that is trying another JSON-parser and or try to change the input format to JSON line instead of JSON only

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The increase-memory-limit module has been deprecated now  As of Node js v8 0 shipped August 2017  we can now use the NODE OPTIONS env variable to set the max old space size globally   export NODE OPTIONS --max old space size 4096   Ref URL  https   github com endel increase-memory-limit

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I found that max new space size is not an option in node 4 1 1 and max old space size alone did not solve my problem   I am adding the following to my shebang and the combination of these seems to work      usr bin env node --max old space size 4096 --optimize for size --max executable size 4096 --stack size 4096    EDIT   4096     4GB of memory  if your device is low on memory you may want to choose a smaller amount     UPDATE   Also discovered this error while running grunt which previously was run like so     node modules  bin grunt   After updating the command to the following it stopped having memory errors   node --max old space size 2048   node modules  bin grunt

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In a Windows Machine run below command      set NODE OPTIONS --max old space size 4096

[node.js] FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - process out of memory

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