Am 17.09.2012 um 06:42 schrieb Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Brian Gruber <[email protected]> wrote: >> It also appear that RSS grows to fill up available memory but doesn't seem to >> hit an OOM. It just stays at a very high memory usage. >> ... > > That's intentional. The V8 garbage collector tries very hard to do as > few sweeps as possible and it does that by growing the heap where > possible. The larger the heap is, the less V8 has to scavenge for > memory when new objects are created.
So this is what I was hoping. I agree with Ben, when a machine has enough memory, it should be used. Lots of free memory are useless ... So we can "ignore" this "problem", as it is no leak (and thus not causing the process to crash with OOM)... Nico -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
