I'd be less worried about savings caps and more worried about losing
implied references.
I'm certainly interested in knowing how this works out for you.
Rick
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Marcel Laverdet <mar...@laverdet.com> wrote:
> > we have some very long running apps we are trying to reduce the
> footprint on and unloading certain modules seems to be a good start
>
> To be honest, that doesn't sound like a very good start. If your long
> applications have a growing footprint then you are leaking memory
> somewhere. "Cleaning up" modules you're not using anymore will save you
> maybe 10mb flat.
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Bradley Meck <bradley.m...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > How do people unload entire modules after they are done using them, we
>> have
>> > some very long running apps we are trying to reduce the footprint on and
>> > unloading certain modules seems to be a good start. For example if we
>> could
>> > eventually end up with something like:
>> >
>> > require.unload('nconf') after the configuration phase of startup.
>>
>> delete require.cache['nconf']?
>>
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