RangeError: Array buffer allocation failed

rejected promise not handled within 1 second: RangeError: Array buffer allocation failed
extensionHostProcess.js:1059
stack trace: RangeError: Array buffer allocation failed
at new ArrayBuffer ()
at new Uint8Array ()
at new FastBuffer (internal/buffer.js:940:1)
at Function.alloc (buffer.js:350:10)
at new Buffer (buffer.js:263:19)
at Stream.writeByte (/buildarea/ashi/dev/git/gitlab_20201109/devcode/node_modules/seek-bzip/lib/index.js:479:23)
at Bunzip._read_bunzip (/buildarea/ashi/dev/git/gitlab_20201109/devcode/node_modules/seek-bzip/lib/index.js:435:25)
at Function.decode (/buildarea/ashi/dev/git/gitlab_20201109/devcode/node_modules/seek-bzip/lib/index.js:513:10)
at /buildarea/ashi/dev/git/gitlab_20201109/devcode/node_modules/decompress-tarbz2/index.js:18:35
at /buildarea/ashi/dev/git/gitlab_20201109/devcode/node_modules/decompress/index.js:19:43
at Array.map ()
at runPlugins (/buildarea/ashi/dev/git/gitlab_20201109/devcode/node_modules/decompress/index.js:19:34)
at extractFile (/buildarea/ashi/dev/git/gitlab_20201109/devcode/node_modules/decompress/index.js:54:46)
at /buildarea/ashi/dev/git/gitlab_20201109/devcode/node_modules/decompress/index.js:150:26

Start with the reported stack trace in seek-bzip/lib/index.js, then follow the call through decompress-tarbz2/index.js and decompress/index.js. Reproduce extraction of the archive that triggers the allocation failure and identify the input or code path responsible; done means the extraction no longer raises the reported RangeError and the behavior is covered by a regression test.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.