Running garbage collection manually in node

Question

I am using node and am considering manually running garbage collection in node. Is there any drawbacks on this? The reason I am doing this is that it looks like node is not

Answer 1

V8 Run garbage collection when he think it's interessting. There is no fixed delay for that. You can read this article to learn about garbage collection V8 : https://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-performance-garbage-collection/

Anyway it's a bad idea to run manually the garbage collector in your project because it blocked completely the node process. So during the garbage collection your program wont handle any request.