Node.js older than 0.4.12 don't work correctly on AWS EC2. Why?

Question

I can\'t install node.js v0.6.1 on AWS EC2 (Ubuntu or CentOs - never mind). After installation I type node, and processor loads to 100%.

But v0.4.12 works fine.

Answer 1

I had the same / similar problem.

on standard 32-bit linux AMI with node v0.6, and redis package, if i opened node command line:

var redis = require('redis');
var r = redis.createClient();
r.quit();

the cpu would go to 100%.

I went to a ubuntu image, this time if I installed node v0.6, just running npm caused cpu to go to 100%.

What solved both situations was installing node v0.4.12.