PM2 v5.1.0: God Daemon taking up huge amounts of memory
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Description
https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/1126
I'm started experiencing this issue again after updating to 5.1.
It takes 230MB (~50%) of RAM on a 512MB machine
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by comparing this report with linked issue #1126 and reproducing PM2 v5.1.0 daemon memory use on a 512MB machine; done means identifying the cause and verifying that the daemon no longer consumes roughly 230MB.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, node.js
- Domain
- cli, devops
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100