I would like to install a Ghost Blog on a shared server via GitHub. During the installation, I need to run npm install, grunt init and grunt prod. My host provides 500 MB memory usage, if a process uses more than 600 MB it kills it.
Therefore I need an option to limit the memory usage of these processes because they all need more than 500 MB of memory!
I tried to run the processes with --max-old-space-size=450 but it does not seem to work.
I would be glad if anyone could provide me a link to a tutorial or documentation about running node processes with options.
Thank you!
UPDATE: Since I’ve posted this the installation of Ghost has changed completely.
From node v8+, typing the following:
node --help
show a --v8-options option. Then typing:
node --v8-options
gives:
...
--max_old_space_size (max size of the old space (in Mbytes))
type: int default: 0
--initial_old_space_size (initial old space size (in Mbytes))
type: int default: 0
...
I have managed to use the first option like this:
node --max-old-space-size=250 `which npm` install
Here we told node to limit RAM usage to 250Mo, the 'which npm' part gives the current npm path and 'install' is the script you want to run.