twolfson/grunt-zip

FATAL ERROR: JS Allocation failed - process out of memory

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#18 opened on Oct 4, 2013

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Description

Getting the error: "FATAL ERROR: JS Allocation failed - process out of memory" when trying to zip up ~400MB of video files.

Was using grunt-contrib-compress prior to grunt-zip but it wasn't flexible enough so I switched. Thing is grunt-contrib-compress had no problem zipping up the files so it isn't a memory issue (I have 8GBs).

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Research direction
Investigate memory allocation in grunt zip's compression logic, compare with grunt contrib compress's approach, and check for large file handling optimizations.
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javascriptnodejs
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backend
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GruntNode.js
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