[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1030284: nodejs: [arm64] RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

[James Addison]

Package: nodejs
Followup-For: Bug #1030284
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg at debian.org

> My plan is to rebuild / retest reverse deps before hard freeze.

That's a good plan.

Do you know whether any of those tests include cases that spin up large (as in:
may consume more than 50% of a system's memory) numbers of processes/threads?

Context: I've begun worrying about the additional overhead from stack
preallocation -- where increasing the stack size might significantly reduce the
number of processes that fit in memory while running simultaneously.

> Thanks, I'll welcome any patch to start with.

FWIW: I am still somewhere between 'do nothing' and 'ok, maybe, after seeing
more data that it is a safe increase'.

I don't trust myself enough to write any logic/syscall-related changes in a
patch but may provide one that updates the constant limits in the relevant
header file(s).

Thorsten: if you'd like an rlimit-based approach then I think that may be upon
you to write, or to request from upstream (where I accidentally impersonated
you on the GitHub issue, by the way - sorry about that!).