🐛 [Bug] FATAL ERROR In Backend Tests, Because We Run Out Of Memory

Created by: Tirokk

🐛 Bug Report

FATAL ERROR in backend tests, because we run out of memory. Same happens often in GitHub Actions. See screen shot:

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Additional Informations

Possible Reasons

• See https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/7874
• May use jest v27 or v28 or later? We have v~25.3.0 …

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62885390/my-jests-tests-are-leaking-memory-how-can-i-fix-this

Solutions

• We solved this now temporarily by increasing the JS memory from 2 GB to 8 GB done here #5139 .

• A possible additional solution can be to split the backend tests in two parts.

  • In lokal development have to commands and run one after the other.
  • In GitHub Actions have two Neo4j databases on two GitHub Actions runners.

• A Node versions upgrade to v14.20.0 or 16.16.0 seems to help, see:

• issue #5175 (closed)

• PR #5176

But this is just because the heap size seems not to be limited to 2 GB. Like you can see if you add --logHeapUsage to the jest test call. Or even change the call to cross-env NODE_ENV=test node --expose-gc ./node_modules/.bin/jest --runInBand --logHeapUsage.