Node: v4.0 force garbage collector

[jd78]

Hi,

In the previous version of Node, I was forcing the garbage collector running node with the flag --expose-gc calling global.gc() in the code. This doesn't seem to work in the version 4.0.
Is there any way to do that?

Thanks.

[bricss]

--js-flags="--expose-gc"

[ChALkeR]

@bricss What?

@jd78 What's the exact problem? Is there no such function or is the memory not collected?

[jd78]

@bricss still not working.

@ChALkeR yes, no function. I get the error "global.gc is not a function"

[bnoordhuis]

Still works: node --expose_gc -p global.gc prints [Function: gc], ditto for -p gc.

[jd78]

I see. But the problem persists.

I tried to run the app as follow:

• node server\www --expose-gc
• node server\www --expose_gc
• node server\www --js-flags="--expose-gc"

In all cases I get the error when I do global.gc();

The same code was working with the version 12.7.

[ChALkeR]

@jd78 Does just gc() work?

[bnoordhuis]

V8 command line switches should come before script filenames. Closing, not a bug.

[jd78]

@bnoordhuis Thanks, that did the job.