🐛 bug report/question
Trying to import ffmpeg.js results in a process taking up 5GBs+ of RAM in a few seconds.
The imported file is 10mb so i can understand it taking up a lot of ram but that much ?
This is something that has been recurring over my projects, parcel processes taking up a lot of ram.
Do you guys have any plans on reducing the memory footprint ?
Banou26
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We're definitely working on addressing this, it's currently one of our top priorities. We're mainly focusing on stability and performance at this point, so we can release a stable version of Parcel 2
I'm able to reproduce this and will figure out why this is happening exactly, will report back in this issue.
DeMoorJasper
on 26 Aug 2020
I've been able to mitigate this problem by passing PARCEL_WORKERS=1 to it. It seems like the memory usage has something to do with how many worker threads it's trying to run. Maybe they're duplicating work?
download13
on 6 Sep 2020
I have (it seems) exactly the same issue with ffmpeg.js and Parcel 1.12.4: it runs out of memory when I import ffmpeg and start parcel serve. Is there any existing workaround, maybe some Parcel CLI arguments?
roman-petrov
on 12 Sep 2020
@roman-petrov You should try using Parcel 2 with the workaround literally on top of your comment.
I've been able to mitigate this problem by passing PARCEL_WORKERS=1 to it.
Banou26
on 13 Sep 2020
@Banou26 , thank you. I will try to upgrade to Parcel 2 and use PARCEL_WORKERS=1
roman-petrov
on 13 Sep 2020
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We're definitely working on addressing this, it's currently one of our top priorities. We're mainly focusing on stability and performance at this point, so we can release a stable version of Parcel 2
I'm able to reproduce this and will figure out why this is happening exactly, will report back in this issue.