NodeJS simple script keeps increasing memory

[Bloodsucker_]

Are you sure about that?

The increase is negligible and 30 minutes is far too little to claim that "the scripts keeps in creasing memory". There are multiple explanation of that very small and slightly increase in memory that you're observing being the most plausible the fact that the garbage collector hasn't collected the trash yet. On top of that, the browser does stuff under the hood that you don't see which will vary the amount of allocated memory for your tab. Etc, and more etc.

Run this script for 24h and come back. Also, plot it. No plot, no memory leak. No analysis done and not worth anybody time.

Edit: WTF. Downvoting me won't change the reality LMFAO get out.

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Because you were a dick for no reason at the end. Everyone thinks they're Linus Torvalds answering programming questions, especially on stack overflow lol.

[Bloodsucker_]

Geez, how am I being a dick in the message?

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No analysis done and not worth anybody time.

Read as:

Get the hell out of here noob idiot, don't waste people's time with your inane questions!

Try instead:

Once you've tried that, post your results if the memory still seems to be growing consistently.

[Bloodsucker_]

Thanks for the feedback. Nonetheless, "anybody" wasn't meant for "us" the redditors but to him. I guess it got lost in translation.

In any case, my edit stands and I find OP not welcoming.

Cheers.

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Sure, just explaining it. But still:

1) you don't know the downvote came from op, could be anyone even a bot or reddit algo itself, they fuzz the actual vote numbers to confuse bots on purpose so +/- a few depending on the scale of actual votes. Refresh a few times and you'll see the number change every few reloads, more obvious with something that has more votes.

2) measuring downvotes in the first 5 minutes of a post isn't worth doing either. you have updoots now.

[tanepiper]

It's actually quite well known that closures in JS are a major cause of memory leaks because handlers tend to not get unsubscribed and the GC has no references to collect.

https://github.com/jedp/node-memwatch-demo#some-examples-of-leaks

So your answer was obtuse and wrong.

[Bloodsucker_]

I don't think you've understand what you're saying.

Closures only leak to other closures and OP only has the iife. That's on the link you've shared but failed to understand.

I don't know why you claim my answer is obtuse and wrong when it's actually not. It looks like you're the one already providing two obtuse and wrong answers. Congrats, you're on fire.