I'm not running out of physical memory. It is the node heap size that's 
dropping from 400mb to 100mb. 


On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 9:17:24 PM UTC-6, Jimb Esser wrote:
>
> If it's physical memory usage (RSS) dropping from 400mb to 100mb when 
> things are going slow, but other memory sizes staying the same (especially 
> if the V8 heap size is still > 100mb), that sounds like maybe your system 
> might be out of total physical memory and a bunch of that process's memory 
> got paged out to slower (swap) memory (although, depending on OS, that may 
> not show up as 100% cpu usage).
>
> On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 1:58:27 PM UTC-7, Mike Roberts wrote:
>>
>> I've been having this problem with my production servers, haven't been 
>> able to replicate it with any other environment and it has be scratching my 
>> head daily.
>>
>> About every hour or so, any and all requests start taking up 100% cpu and 
>> response times go from 0.5 to around 2 seconds. This happens for anywhere 
>> between a few minutes up to a half an hour. Then it goes back to normal. My 
>> monitoring script requests one page (the same page) per minute, and this 
>> issue can start without any traffic to the server, except for the monitor 
>> that runs the same script over and over. I've even changed the script the 
>> monitor checks and it's the same problem.
>>
>> I've found that the node process drops in memory dramatically. It will go 
>> from 400mb to 100mb and this is when the problem starts. No erros shows up 
>> in any of the logs. Again, it happens seemly randomly with nothing 
>> triggering an event, at least I haven't found a trigger. It's getting 
>> fairly annoying because it's only happening in production. I've only been 
>> able to manage the symptoms using clustering, so that only one of the 
>> processes has the issue at a time.
>>
>> I'm running 0.12.7 with express and mongoose.
>>
>

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