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Exposes stats about V8 GC after it has been executed.
Create a new instance of the module and subscribe to stats
-events from that:
var gc = (require('gc-stats'))();
gc.on('stats', function (stats) {
console.log('GC happened', stats);
});
This will print blobs like this whenever a GC happened:
GC happened {
pause: 433034,
pauseMS: 0,
gctype: 1,
before: {
totalHeapSize: 18635008,
totalHeapExecutableSize: 4194304,
usedHeapSize: 12222496,
heapSizeLimit: 1535115264
}, after: {
totalHeapSize: 18635008,
totalHeapExecutableSize: 4194304,
usedHeapSize: 8116600,
heapSizeLimit: 1535115264
}, diff: {
totalHeapSize: 0,
totalHeapExecutableSize: 0,
usedHeapSize: -4105896,
heapSizeLimit: 0
}
}
npm install gc-stats
node-gcstats depends on C++ extensions which are compiled when the gc-stats module is installed. Compatibility information can be inspected via the Travis-CI build jobs.
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Exposes node v8 garbage collection stats
We found that @risingstack/gc-stats demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 10 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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