FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - process out of memory

To solve this issue you need to run your application by increasing the memory limit by using the option --max_old_space_size. By default the memory limit of Node.js is 512 mb.

node --max_old_space_size=2000  server.js 

$ sudo npm i -g increase-memory-limit

Run from the root location of your project:

$ increase-memory-limit

This tool will append --max-old-space-size=4096 in all node calls inside your node_modules/.bin/* files.


Node.js version >= 8 - DEPRECATION NOTICE

Since NodeJs V8.0.0, it is possible to use the option --max-old-space-size. NODE_OPTIONS=options...

$ export NODE_OPTIONS=--max_old_space_size=4096

If you have a look at the source: github/v8, it seems that you try to reserve a very big object.According to my experience it happens if you try to parse a huge JSON object, but when I try to parse your output with JSON and node0.11.13, it just works fine.

You don't need more --stack-size, you need more memory: --max_new_space_size and/or --max_old_space_size.

The only hint I can give you beside that is trying another JSON-parser and/or try to change the input format to JSON line instead of JSON only.


Note: see the warning in the comments about how this can affect Electron applications.

As of v8.0 shipped August 2017, the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable exposes this configuration (see NODE_OPTIONS has landed in 8.x!). Per the article, only options whitelisted in the source (note: not an up-to-date-link!) are permitted, which includes "--max_old_space_size". Note that this article's title seems a bit misleading - it seems NODE_OPTIONS had already existed, but I'm not sure it exposed this option.

So I put in my .bashrc:
export NODE_OPTIONS=--max_old_space_size=4096

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Node.Js