NodeJS memory consumption in an infinite loop

Question

I don\'t know if this is a bug with Node or V8, but if I run the following code the node process leaks memory. The GC never seems to kick in and in a few seconds it\'s consuming

Answer 1

The answer by @VyacheslavEgorov seems right on but I would guess that deferring to the event loop would solve the problem. You might want to compare how your infinite for-loop compares to this infinite looping strategy:

function loginf() {
  console.log(1+1);
  process.nextTick(loginf);
}
loginf();

The idea is to use process.nextTick(cb) to defer to the event loop and (presumably) allow the GC to do its thing.