Isn't that gc doing its work ?
As a workaround, you can turn it off and run it manually 
node --nouse_idle_notification --expose_gc
> global.gc();

Regards,
Jérémy.

On 11/05/2012 09:51, Joran Greef wrote:
> I have posted this in v8-users but perhaps someone else here will also be 
> familiar with this:
> 
> I am using V8 as part of Node and have written a Javascript implementation of 
> Bitcask, using a Javascript object as a hash to keep file offsets in memory.
> 
> This object has 7 million entries and I'm noticing that while the JS code is 
> resting, doing nothing, V8 is hitting 100% CPU every few seconds and doing 
> this continually.
> 
> Attached is the full result of running V8 with --prof.
> 
> And of particular interest:
> 
> [C++]:
>    ticks  total  nonlib   name
>   73615   43.1%   43.1%  
> v8::internal::StaticMarkingVisitor::VisitUnmarkedObjects
>   68436   40.1%   40.1%  _accept$NOCANCEL
>    4796    2.8%    2.8%  
> v8::internal::FlexibleBodyVisitor<v8::internal::StaticMarkingVisitor, 
> v8::internal::JSObject::BodyDescriptor, void>::VisitSpecialized<40>
> 
> Should I be using many smaller hashes to keep this overhead down? i.e. some 
> sort of sparse hash implementation? Or using key mod 1000 to determine the 
> hash it should be in?
> 
> Does V8 have limits on hash table sizes?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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