Debugging a Memory Leak in a Long-Running Node Process
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A healthy Node process has a sawtooth memory graph; a rising floor means a leak Take two heap snapshots and diff them to find the growing object class The three usual suspects: unremoved listeners, unbounded caches, closures holding big objects Fix the retained path, not the symptom, then rerun the…
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- 2026-10-23 01:17 · DEV Community — AI
Debugging a Memory Leak in a Long-Running Node Process