[Bug]: NPM process crashes on Memory issue

[phikhi]

Operating system version

macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 (MacBook Pro M2 Pro - 16GB RAM)

System architecture

ARM64 (M1, M2, etc)

Herd Version

1.5.0 (Build 23)

PHP Version

No response

Bug description

I encounter a memory problem with the Herd embedded NPM (v.21.7.1)

When running npm run dev in a classic Laravel 10 app.
The process starts normally, but after a few code changes and file saves, the process crashes.

See the terminal output error log below.

Is there an easy way to fix this ?
I tried to update everything I could (herd, node version) but still having the same issue.

Steps to reproduce

No response

Relevant log output

<--- Last few GCs --->

[10011:0x160008000]   267568 ms: Mark-Compact 3932.9 (4129.0) -> 3918.9 (4129.0) MB, 362.54 / 0.00 ms  (average mu = 0.127, current mu = 0.031) task; scavenge might not succeed
[10011:0x160008000]   267937 ms: Mark-Compact 3932.7 (4129.0) -> 3919.1 (4129.3) MB, 357.21 / 0.00 ms  (average mu = 0.082, current mu = 0.032) task; scavenge might not succeed


<--- JS stacktrace --->

FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
----- Native stack trace -----

 1: 0x10222b464 node::OOMErrorHandler(char const*, v8::OOMDetails const&) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
 2: 0x1023d0180 v8::internal::V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, v8::OOMDetails const&) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
 3: 0x1025b0960 v8::internal::Heap::stack() [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
 4: 0x1025b4284 v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbageShared(v8::internal::LocalHeap*, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
 5: 0x1025b2ed0 v8::internal::Heap::PerformGarbageCollection(v8::internal::GarbageCollector, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason, char const*) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
 6: 0x1025c3ca4 v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbage(v8::internal::AllocationSpace, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason, v8::GCCallbackFlags)::$_6::operator()() const [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
 7: 0x1025c3890 void heap::base::Stack::SetMarkerAndCallbackImpl<v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbage(v8::internal::AllocationSpace, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason, v8::GCCallbackFlags)::$_6>(heap::base::Stack*, void*, void const*) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
 8: 0x102bfd91c PushAllRegistersAndIterateStack [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
 9: 0x1025aea30 v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbage(v8::internal::AllocationSpace, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason, v8::GCCallbackFlags) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
10: 0x1025f62e0 v8::internal::MinorGCJob::Task::RunInternal() [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
11: 0x10228fea8 node::PerIsolatePlatformData::RunForegroundTask(std::__1::unique_ptr<v8::Task, std::__1::default_delete<v8::Task>>) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
12: 0x10228ec00 node::PerIsolatePlatformData::FlushForegroundTasksInternal() [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
13: 0x102c46ff8 uv__async_io [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
14: 0x102c5935c uv__io_poll [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
15: 0x102c475bc uv_run [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
16: 0x1021596f0 node::SpinEventLoopInternal(node::Environment*) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
17: 0x10226a36c node::NodeMainInstance::Run(node::ExitCode*, node::Environment*) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
18: 0x10226a118 node::NodeMainInstance::Run() [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
19: 0x1021f5d44 node::Start(int, char**) [/Users/phikhi/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/nvm/versions/node/v21.6.1/bin/node]
20: 0x1823390e0 start [/usr/lib/dyld]
[1]    9987 abort      npm run dev

[mpociot]

This seems like it's an issue related to Node itself and not Herd. We only install the official Node versions via NVM, so Herd doesn't "modify" node in any way.
You could try and use NodeJS 20, which is the LTS release. Maybe there is an issue in Node 21 that causes this.

[phikhi]

Thanks for your answer ! I finally fixed my problem
the problem wasn't the node version but a PHP package installed in the project.

Thanks for your help anyway and thank you for Herd which is amazing !!!