[BUG] FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

[melroy89]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

This issue exists in the latest npm version

• I am using the latest npm

Current Behavior

I'm working on an Angular v17 frontend project with npm (package.json and package-lock.json).

When I run npm update using version 10.5.1 of npm it's busy updating and then it crashes with:

(⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂) ⠏ idealTree:erp-frontend: sill idealTree buildDeps
<--- Last few GCs --->

[101032:0x6501150]    22500 ms: Mark-Compact (reduce) 2047.2 (2082.3) -> 2046.7 (2083.0) MB, 17.50 / 0.02 ms  (+ 213.1 ms in 153 steps since start of marking, biggest step 9.1 ms, walltime since start of marking 348 ms) (average mu = 0.756, current mu = 0[101032:0x6501150]    22850 ms: Mark-Compact (reduce) 2047.7 (2083.0) -> 2047.7 (2084.0) MB, 345.21 / 0.00 ms  (average mu = 0.479, current mu = 0.014) allocation failure; scavenge might not succeed


<--- JS stacktrace --->

FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
----- Native stack trace -----

 1: 0xb84bd6 node::OOMErrorHandler(char const*, v8::OOMDetails const&) [npm update]
 2: 0xefeb90 v8::Utils::ReportOOMFailure(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, v8::OOMDetails const&) [npm update]
 3: 0xefee77 v8::internal::V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, v8::OOMDetails const&) [npm update]
 4: 0x1110885  [npm update]
 5: 0x1128708 v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbage(v8::internal::AllocationSpace, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason, v8::GCCallbackFlags) [npm update]
 6: 0x10fe821 v8::internal::HeapAllocator::AllocateRawWithLightRetrySlowPath(int, v8::internal::AllocationType, v8::internal::AllocationOrigin, v8::internal::AllocationAlignment) [npm update]
 7: 0x10ff9b5 v8::internal::HeapAllocator::AllocateRawWithRetryOrFailSlowPath(int, v8::internal::AllocationType, v8::internal::AllocationOrigin, v8::internal::AllocationAlignment) [npm update]
 8: 0x10dc0d6 v8::internal::Factory::AllocateRaw(int, v8::internal::AllocationType, v8::internal::AllocationAlignment) [npm update]
 9: 0x10cdd04 v8::internal::FactoryBase<v8::internal::Factory>::AllocateRawWithImmortalMap(int, v8::internal::AllocationType, v8::internal::Map, v8::internal::AllocationAlignment) [npm update]
10: 0x10d04e6 v8::internal::FactoryBase<v8::internal::Factory>::NewRawOneByteString(int, v8::internal::AllocationType) [npm update]
11: 0x1241cb5 v8::internal::JsonParser<unsigned short>::MakeString(v8::internal::JsonString const&, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::String>) [npm update]
12: 0x1247ccd  [npm update]
13: 0x1249c39 v8::internal::JsonParser<unsigned short>::ParseJson(v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::Object>) [npm update]
14: 0xf9086e v8::internal::Builtin_JsonParse(int, unsigned long*, v8::internal::Isolate*) [npm update]
15: 0x1971df6  [npm update]
Aborted (core dumped)

Expected Behavior

No heap limit or crash when using npm on the command line. I still have plenty of ram left.

Steps To Reproduce

1. See attachment for my package-lock.json & package.json file:
   package-lock.json
   package.json

2. Run: npm update

3. Crash (heap limit)

For info, npm outdated shows:

Package                                  Current   Wanted   Latest  Location                                             Depended by
@angular-builders/jest                    17.0.2   17.0.3   17.0.3  node_modules/@angular-builders/jest                  tmp
@angular-devkit/build-angular             17.2.3   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular           tmp
@angular-eslint/builder                   17.2.1   17.2.1   17.3.0  node_modules/@angular-eslint/builder                 tmp
@angular-eslint/eslint-plugin             17.2.1   17.2.1   17.3.0  node_modules/@angular-eslint/eslint-plugin           tmp
@angular-eslint/eslint-plugin-template    17.2.1   17.2.1   17.3.0  node_modules/@angular-eslint/eslint-plugin-template  tmp
@angular-eslint/schematics                17.2.1   17.2.1   17.3.0  node_modules/@angular-eslint/schematics              tmp
@angular-eslint/template-parser           17.2.1   17.2.1   17.3.0  node_modules/@angular-eslint/template-parser         tmp
@angular/animations                       17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/animations                     tmp
@angular/cdk                              17.2.2   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/cdk                            tmp
@angular/cli                              17.2.3   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/cli                            tmp
@angular/common                           17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/common                         tmp
@angular/compiler                         17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/compiler                       tmp
@angular/compiler-cli                     17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/compiler-cli                   tmp
@angular/core                             17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/core                           tmp
@angular/forms                            17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/forms                          tmp
@angular/localize                         17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/localize                       tmp
@angular/material                         17.2.2   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/material                       tmp
@angular/platform-browser                 17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/platform-browser               tmp
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic         17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/platform-browser-dynamic       tmp
@angular/router                           17.2.4   17.3.3   17.3.3  node_modules/@angular/router                         tmp
@types/node                             20.11.25  20.12.5  20.12.5  node_modules/@types/node                             tmp
@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin          6.19.0   6.19.0    7.5.0  node_modules/@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin        tmp
@typescript-eslint/parser                 6.19.0   6.19.0    7.5.0  node_modules/@typescript-eslint/parser               tmp
cypress                                   13.6.6   13.7.2   13.7.2  node_modules/cypress                                 tmp
eslint                                    8.57.0   8.57.0    9.0.0  node_modules/eslint                                  tmp
ngx-mat-select-search                      7.0.5    7.0.6    7.0.6  node_modules/ngx-mat-select-search                   tmp
typescript                                 5.3.3    5.3.3    5.4.4  node_modules/typescript                              tmp

Environment

• npm: 10.5.1
• Node.js: v20.12.1
• OS Name: Linux Mint
• System Model Name: Self-built
• npm config:

; "user" config from /home/melroy/.npmrc

prefix = "/home/melroy/.npm-global" 

; node bin location = /usr/bin/node
; node version = v20.12.1
; npm local prefix = /media/melroy/Data/Projects/erp-frontend
; npm version = 10.5.1
; cwd = /media/melroy/Data/Projects/erp-frontend
; HOME = /home/melroy
; Run `npm config ls -l` to show all defaults.

Workaround

Not nice.. but the workaround for now is:

node --max-old-space-size=8000 $(which npm) update

[wraithgar]

Duplicate of #7276