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This adds new section for v8 options and --max-old-space-size
Fixes: #32252

PR-URL: #32262
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
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nimit95 authored and targos committed Apr 22, 2020
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greater than `4` (its current default value). For more information, see the
[libuv threadpool documentation][].

## Useful V8 options

V8 has its own set of CLI options. Any V8 CLI option that is provided to `node`
will be passed on to V8 to handle. V8's options have _no stability guarantee_.
The V8 team themselves don't consider them to be part of their formal API,
and reserve the right to change them at any time. Likewise, they are not
covered by the Node.js stability guarantees. Many of the V8
options are of interest only to V8 developers. Despite this, there is a small
set of V8 options that are widely applicable to Node.js, and they are
documented here:

### `--max-old-space-size=SIZE` (in Mbytes)

Sets the max memory size of V8's old memory section. As memory
consumption approaches the limit, V8 will spend more time on
garbage collection in an effort to free unused memory.

On a machine with 2GB of memory, consider setting this to
1536 (1.5GB) to leave some memory for other uses and avoid swapping.

```console
$ node --max-old-space-size=1536 index.js
```

[`--openssl-config`]: #cli_openssl_config_file
[`Buffer`]: buffer.html#buffer_class_buffer
[`SlowBuffer`]: buffer.html#buffer_class_slowbuffer
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