On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:01 AM, wavded <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for clarification Ben.  That makes sense and the 51 MB I was
> referring to was the heapUsed value which was just one part of the picture
> as I just learned.  What typically takes up the most memory outside of the
> V8 heap?  Open file descriptors? (in this particular app I'm making a lot of
> HTTP requests).

It's probably buffers. A 10 MB buffer object, for example, uses a
couple of bytes of V8 heap space and 10 MB of global heap space.

> Anyway to tap into that information?

node-inspector or node-webkit-agent? I'm not sure if they deal with
buffers properly, though.

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