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Re:A surprising Node.js failure: deterministic code becomes ... by asusBsus on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:29PM (#14000542)
> it stores 4 gigs of data in memory

I'm not sure how a single node process was able to load 4 gbs worth of data into memory? I thought there was a hard limit of 1.5GB per process.

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Re:A surprising Node.js failure: deterministic code becomes ... by davidmurdoch on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:00PM (#14000672)
It's 1.7GB (for 64bit node) unless you change the limit with the `--max-old-space-size` flag.
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