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

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What happened?

It crashed it full filld my whole ram or something like that ...

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To give me an answer , but gemini refused or something :/

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โš  High memory usage detected: 7.64 GB. If you experience a crash, please file a bug report by running /bug โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€

/rewind
โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„ โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€ /compress
โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„ โœฆ Chat history compressed from 106698 to 15890 tokens.

โš  High memory usage detected: 15.39 GB. If you experience a crash, please file a bug report by running /bug

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/compress
<--- Last few GCs --->โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–„ workspace (/directory) branch /model memory [20208:0000018C7DEAF000] 13878140 ms: Mark-Compact 15936.1 (16386.4) -> 15888.5 (16388.4) MB, pooled: 8.0 MB, 1863.63 / 0.01 ms (average mu = 0.186, current mu = 0.101) task; scavenge might not succeed [20208:0000018C7DEAF000] 13880206 ms: Mark-Compact 15941.5 (16388.4) -> 15891.5 (16388.9) MB, pooled: 8.0 MB, 1904.94 / 0.01 ms (average mu = 0.135, current mu = 0.078) task; scavenge might not succeed

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

1: 00007FF6A7C97966 node::OnFatalError+1318 PS D:\baritone-1.11.2> ::Function::NewInstance+423 PS D:\baritone-1.11.2> P_PKEY_asn1_set_get_priv_key+463063 PS D:\baritone-1.11.2> P_PKEY_asn1_set_get_priv_key+479207 PS D:\baritone-1.11.2> ::internal::StrongRootAllocatorBase::deallocate_impl+19176 6: 00007FF6A865CBCB v8::internal::StrongRootAllocatorBase::deallocate_impl+17179 7: 00007FF6A9C319ED v8::platform::DelayedTaskQueue::Terminate+9873613 8: 00007FF6A86451B8 EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_get_priv_key+453128 9: 00007FF6A8648FEF EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_get_priv_key+469055 10: 00007FF6A85ED37D EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_get_priv_key+93133 11: 00007FF6A7BE891F v8::base::VirtualAddressSubspace::ActiveMemoryProtectionKey+43855 12: 00007FF6A7BE70C0 v8::base::VirtualAddressSubspace::ActiveMemoryProtectionKey+37616 13: 00007FF6A88A273B uv_run+1867 14: 00007FF6A88A22AF uv_run+703 15: 00007FF6A7DB807F node::DecodeWrite+383 16: 00007FF6A7C24B91 node::MultiIsolatePlatform::DisposeIsolate+243953 17: 00007FF6A7CF5E1C node::Start+1052 18: 00007FF6A8C695C2 AES_cbc_encrypt+2546 19: 00007FF6A9C3B2E4 v8::platform::DelayedTaskQueue::Terminate+9912772 20: 00007FF8D573E957 BaseThreadInitThunk+23 21: 00007FF8D772427C RtlUserThreadStart+44 PS D:\baritone-1.11.2>

Anything else we need to know?

Idk , it got more and more usage or something ... :( Please fix it ... thx ;)

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TL;DR

The issue is likely caused by high memory usage, and a potential fix is to increase the Node.js heap size or optimize memory usage.

Guidance

  • The error message "JavaScript heap out of memory" suggests that the Node.js process has run out of memory, which can be caused by a memory leak or excessive memory allocation.
  • The provided stack trace and memory usage logs indicate that the issue is related to memory management, with multiple mark-compact garbage collection attempts failing to free up enough memory.
  • To mitigate the issue, try increasing the Node.js heap size by running the process with the --max-old-space-size flag, for example: node --max-old-space-size=8192 index.js.
  • Additionally, review the code for potential memory leaks or optimization opportunities, such as unnecessary variable assignments or unclosed resources.

Example

No specific code example is provided, as the issue is related to memory management and not a specific code snippet.

Notes

The provided information suggests that the issue is related to memory usage, but without more context or code, it's difficult to provide a more specific solution. Increasing the heap size may only temporarily alleviate the issue, and a more permanent fix may require optimizing memory usage or identifying and fixing memory leaks.

Recommendation

Apply a workaround by increasing the Node.js heap size using the --max-old-space-size flag, and investigate potential memory leaks or optimization opportunities in the code.

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