Because the V8 only fires up the garbage collector to recover memory when
it thinks it needs to.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Liujin Wu <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> var showMem = function(num) {
>     var mem = process.memoryUsage();
>     var format = function(bytes) {
>          return (bytes/1024/1024).toFixed(2)+'MB';
>     };
>     console.log('Process: heapTotal '+format(mem.heapTotal) + ' heapUsed '
> + format(mem.heapUsed) + ' rss ' + format(mem.rss));
>     console.log(num+'----------------------------------------');
> };
>
> showMem(1);
> (function(){
> var array = [];
> for(var i = 0;i<1024*1024*10;i++){
> array.push(i);
> }
> showMem(2);
> array = null;
> })()
>
>
>
> setInterval(function(){
> showMem(3);
> },3000)
>
>
>
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