Unitech / Unitech/pm2

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

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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

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