In case this helps anyone out: I have seen pauses of up to 22 seconds in a production application with 2GB heap data on Node v0.7 and above.
I ran trace-gc and the pauses are almost all GC. The offending line is "last resort gc". It may be here in the V8 source: http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/browse/trunk/src/heap-inl.h?spec=svn12566&r=12566#547 Idle notifications are disabled and none of the other GC flags make any difference. I tried switching back to Node v0.6 which has an older release of V8 bundled with it and the excessive GC pauses went away. The problem with v0.6 is that the V8 bundled with it cannot have max-old-space-size greater than 1900MB AFAIK. -- 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 nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
