Is there a big difference between heapUsed and heapTotal on your app? If you seem big difference try rolling nodejs build forward to V8 3.11.10.13.
-- Vyacheslav Egorov 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). Anyway to tap into that information? > > > On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:52:03 PM UTC-5, Ben Noordhuis wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:35 AM, wavded <[email protected]> wrote: >> > mscdex, question about that, I have a process running at 370 some MB in >> > RES >> > (in TOP) but the output from process.memoryUsage() is 51 MB. Any clues >> > on >> > that? I know Linux memory management is weird but I have been relying >> > on >> > process.memoryUsage(). What is it actually? >> >> $ node -pe 'process.memoryUsage()' >> { rss: 6701056, heapTotal: 3018752, heapUsed: 1587360 } >> >> rss is what node thinks the RSS is (may not quite match what external >> tools report - it's complicated). >> >> heapTotal and heapUsed relate to the V8 heap, not the global heap. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
