[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#840640: npm search runs out of memory

[Tony Houghton]

Package: npm
Version: 1.4.21+ds-2
Severity: normal

When running npm search it appeared to run out of memory while building
its index. I was monitoring it in top and the memory usage seemed to be
fairly stable at 23.x% (of 8GB) rather than steadily climbing. Perhaps
node is imposing a limit to keep overall use below 2GB?

Output:

$ npm search minimatch
npm WARN Building the local index for the first time, please be patient

<--- Last few GCs --->

  137285 ms: Scavenge 1393.4 (1449.8) -> 1393.4 (1449.8) MB, 3.2 / 0 ms
[allocation failure].
  137289 ms: Scavenge 1393.4 (1449.8) -> 1393.4 (1449.8) MB, 3.0 / 0 ms
[allocation failure].
  137292 ms: Scavenge 1393.4 (1449.8) -> 1393.4 (1449.8) MB, 3.0 / 0 ms
[allocation failure].
  138179 ms: Mark-sweep 1393.4 (1449.8) -> 1392.9 (1449.8) MB, 887.8 / 0
ms [last resort gc].
  139082 ms: Mark-sweep 1392.9 (1449.8) -> 1393.1 (1449.8) MB, 902.8 / 0
ms [last resort gc].


<--- JS stacktrace --->

==== JS stack trace =========================================

Security context: 0x6def95b4629 <JS Object>
    1: stringify [native json.js:157] [pc=0x1681a58539e4]
(this=0x6def95ac529 <a JSON with map 0x3769ecd09851>,u=0x23c6d6a1da49
<an Object with map 0x2209ac37a8c9>,v=0x6def95041b9
<undefined>,I=0x6def95041b9 <undefined>)
    2: arguments adaptor frame: 1->3
    3: /* anonymous */
[/usr/share/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js:100]
[pc=0x1681a583d317] (this=0x650e961c479 <JS Global O...

FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - process out of
memory
Aborted
$ 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages npm depends on:
ii  node-abbrev               1.0.9-1
ii  node-ansi                 0.3.0-2
ii  node-ansi-color-table     1.0.0-1
ii  node-archy                0.0.2-1
ii  node-block-stream         0.0.7-1
ii  node-fstream              0.1.24-1
ii  node-fstream-ignore       0.0.6-2
ii  node-github-url-from-git  1.4.0-1
ii  node-glob                 4.0.5-1
ii  node-graceful-fs          3.0.2-1
ii  node-gyp                  3.4.0-1
ii  node-inherits             2.0.1-3
ii  node-ini                  1.1.0-1
ii  node-lockfile             0.4.1-1
ii  node-lru-cache            2.3.1-1
ii  node-minimatch            1.0.0-1
ii  node-mkdirp               0.5.0-1
ii  node-nopt                 3.0.6-1
ii  node-npmlog               0.0.4-1
ii  node-once                 1.1.1-1
ii  node-osenv                0.1.0-1
ii  node-read                 1.0.5-1
ii  node-read-package-json    1.2.4-1
ii  node-request              2.26.1-1
ii  node-retry                0.6.0-1
ii  node-rimraf               2.2.8-1
ii  node-semver               2.1.0-2
ii  node-sha                  1.2.3-1
ii  node-slide                1.1.4-1
ii  node-tar                  1.0.3-2
ii  node-underscore           1.8.3~dfsg-1
ii  node-which                1.0.5-2
ii  nodejs                    4.3.1~dfsg-3

npm recommends no packages.

npm suggests no packages.

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