On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 7:56:11 AM UTC+2, Russ Frank wrote: > > I have a heap dump (obtained with bnoordhuis/node-heapdump) of a > production node process that had a large heap. I found a bunch of business > objects retained by "(Global Handles)". I'm wondering how a JS object can > end up being retained in this way. Would it need to go through a native > extension which is accidentally creating such a global handle and thereby > retaining the object? > > I don't think it needs a native extension there - a simple variable leak can do that. Some code analysis tools can help you check your javascript parts for such issues, not sure about the extension. Is that something occurring regularly?
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