[BUG] Big performance issues and possible memory leak

Current Behavior:

Running npm 7 in docker image has some serious performance issues. Running same npm 7 locally doesn't have this on the other hand. I was thinking about posting this in the docker repository, but I am still unsure of the culprit and how it is related to the problem. I have found that reify:createSparse is the task that slows down dramatically, which as I saw is creating directories. So I suspect this issue might be related to docker volumes. On the other hand using npm@6 there is no such issue in docker.

Now when running same stuff on node:12-buster we also get the following out of heap error: FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory. This doesn't happen on node 14 and 16. (* actually just happend so I might be wrong here)

Originally I have found this issue using an ubuntu 16 docker image, but these other images also fail in the same manner.

Expected Behavior:

No performance issues in docker (vs local). No out of heap errors.

Steps To Reproduce:

Test package.json

{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "index.tsx",
  "scripts": {
  },
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@cypress/code-coverage": "^3.9.5",
    "@cypress/webpack-preprocessor": "^4.1.5",
    "@storybook/addon-actions": "^6.1.11",
    "@storybook/addon-essentials": "^6.1.11",
    "@storybook/addon-knobs": "^6.1.11",
    "@storybook/addon-links": "^6.1.11",
    "@storybook/react": "^6.1.11",
    "apollo": "^2.32.5",
    "axios-mock-adapter": "^1.19.0",
    "babel-preset-react-app": "^10.0.0",
    "chai-in-viewport": "^1.0.3",
    "copy-webpack-plugin": "6.2.1",
    "cypress": "^7.2.0",
    "cypress-terminal-report": "^3.1.0",
    "fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin": "4.0.3",
    "http-serve": "^1.0.1",
    "spa-http-server": "^0.9.0",
    "storybook-addon-designs": "^5.4.3",
    "storybook-addon-intl": "^2.4.1",
    "storybook-react-router": "^1.0.8"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@apollo/client": "^3.3.15",
    "@babel/core": "7.10.4",
    "@babel/plugin-syntax-dynamic-import": "7.8.3",
    "@babel/preset-env": "7.10.4",
    "@babel/preset-react": "7.10.4",
    "@babel/register": "^7.10.4",
    "@brokerloop/ttlcache": "^3.2.1",
    "@hot-loader/react-dom": "^16.12.0",
    "@material-ui/core": "5.0.0-alpha.10",
    "@material-ui/icons": "^4.9.1",
    "@material-ui/lab": "4.0.0-alpha.45",
    "@reduxjs/toolkit": "^1.5.0",
    "@types/axios": "^0.14.0",
    "@types/chai": "^4.2.8",
    "@types/chai-as-promised": "^7.1.2",
    "@types/mocha": "^7.0.1",
    "@types/node": "12.0.2",
    "@types/react": "^16.8.23",
    "@types/react-dom": "^16.0.11",
    "@types/react-redux": "^7.1.1",
    "@types/react-router": "^5.1.4",
    "@types/react-router-dom": "^5.1.3",
    "@types/react-slick": "^0.23.4",
    "@types/react-stickynode": "^2.1.0",
    "@types/redux-mock-store": "^1.0.2",
    "@types/sinon": "^7.5.1",
    "@types/storybook-react-router": "^1.0.1",
    "@types/throttle-debounce": "^2.1.0",
    "@types/url-join": "^4.0.0",
    "@types/uuid": "^8.3.0",
    "@types/yup": "^0.26.33",
    "@xstate/react": "^0.8.1",
    "autoprefixer": "^9.7.5",
    "axios": "0.18.1",
    "babel-loader": "8.0.6",
    "chai": "^4.2.0",
    "chai-as-promised": "^7.1.1",
    "clean-webpack-plugin": "^3.0.0",
    "clone-deep": "^4.0.1",
    "clsx": "^1.1.1",
    "css-hot-loader": "^1.4.4",
    "css-loader": "3.4.2",
    "currency-symbol-map": "^4.0.4",
    "deep-equal": "^2.0.2",
    "deepmerge": "^4.2.2",
    "dotenv": "8.2.0",
    "dotenv-webpack": "1.7.0",
    "envsub": "^4.0.7",
    "fast-deep-equal": "^3.1.3",
    "file-loader": "^5.0.2",
    "formik": "^2.1.4",
    "graphql": "^15.5.0",
    "html-webpack-harddisk-plugin": "^1.0.2",
    "html-webpack-plugin": "^4.3.0",
    "istanbul-instrumenter-loader": "^3.0.1",
    "istanbul-lib-coverage": "^3.0.0",
    "js-cookie": "^2.2.1",
    "jsdom": "16.1.0",
    "jsdom-global": "3.0.2",
    "jsonschema": "^1.2.5",
    "jss-increase-specificity": "^0.3.5",
    "material-ui-image": "^3.2.3",
    "md5-file": "^4.0.0",
    "mini-css-extract-plugin": "^0.9.0",
    "mocha": "^7.0.1",
    "nyc": "^15.0.0",
    "postcss-loader": "3.0.0",
    "prettier": "^1.18.2",
    "query-string": "^6.11.0",
    "react": "16.12.0",
    "react-dom": "16.12.0",
    "react-hot-loader": "^4.12.19",
    "react-intl": "^3.12.0",
    "react-router": "^5.1.2",
    "react-router-dom": "^5.1.2",
    "react-scrollbars-custom": "^4.0.25",
    "react-slick": "^0.27.11",
    "react-stickynode": "^2.1.1",
    "react-universal-component": "^4.0.1",
    "redux-mock-store": "^1.5.4",
    "remove": "^0.1.5",
    "sass-loader": "8.0.2",
    "sinon": "^8.1.1",
    "slick-carousel": "^1.8.1",
    "thread-loader": "^3.0.3",
    "throttle-debounce": "^3.0.1",
    "tinycolor2": "^1.4.1",
    "tinyurl": "^1.1.7",
    "ts-loader": "6.2.1",
    "ts-node": "^8.6.2",
    "tslint": "^5.12.1",
    "tslint-config-prettier": "^1.17.0",
    "tslint-config-standard": "^9.0.0",
    "tslint-no-focused-test": "^0.5.0",
    "tslint-react": "^4.0.0",
    "typescript": "3.7.5",
    "url-join": "^4.0.1",
    "uuid": "^8.3.1",
    "webpack": "4.46.0",
    "webpack-cli": "3.3.10",
    "webpack-dev-server": "3.10.3",
    "webpack-license-plugin": "^4.1.1",
    "webpack-livereload-plugin": "^2.2.0",
    "webpack-merge": "4.2.2",
    "xstate": "^4.7.8",
    "yup": "^0.28.3"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=12"
  }
}

Example 1.

1. Do a local npm i to create the package lock in the directory where you created the above package.json.
2. Run rm node_modules/ -rf
3. Run docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/app -w /app node:16-buster npm i --legacy-peer-deps --verbose in the directory where you created the above package.json
4. Notice how long the reify:createSparse
5. Same behaviour is with node:14-buster

Example 2:

1. Do a local npm i to create the package lock in the directory where you created the above package.json.
2. Run rm node_modules/ -rf
3. Run docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/app -w /app node:12-buster bash -c "npm i -g npm@7 && npm i --legacy-peer-deps --verbose"
4. Notice the out of heap error.

Environment:

• Host OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Kernel: 5.11.10-051110-generic
• Docker: 20.10.6
• Node: 16.x, 14.x, 12.x
• npm: 7.x
• System RAM: 32GB, CPU i7-10850H

Start by reproducing the Docker-mounted install with the supplied package.json and commands, comparing npm 7 with npm 6 and the listed Node versions. Trace the reify:createSparse task, which the report identifies as the slowdown point, while checking the reported heap failure. Done means the install no longer shows the Docker performance regression or out-of-heap error.