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pinging @trevnorris since he likely knows the answer.

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By code size do you mean the built binary? As for v8, there are ways to constrain how much maximum memory it can use, but don't know of a way to limit memory consumption at startup.

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Hi Trevor,

Yes I mean the built binary. I tried changing the v8 gcc flag to -Os, that
did succeed in making it smaller, but starts up slower I guess due to less
optimization

David

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Trevor Norris [email protected]
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By code size do you mean the built binary? As for v8, there are ways to
constrain how much maximum memory it can use, but don't know of a way to
limit memory consumption at startup.

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I'm not really sure. you could compile w/o openssl if you don't need crypto.

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@cuttlfish what operating system and platform?

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This is linux running on a ARM platform that is similar to raspberry pi

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@cuttlfish https://github.com/cuttlfish what operating system and
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I am also looking to reduce node memory size around 20 MB in openwrt. currently it is consuming around 50 MB.

is there any way to reduce memory consumption ? even i am ready to change code to reduce memory i.e v8, uv or other deps.

Thanks,
Amul Patel

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There is an --optimize_for_size flag in newer versions of node and you can limit the size of the heap with --max_old_space_size=... (and --max_semi_space_size and --max_executable_size) in all versions.

You can also tweak common.gypi to build at -Os instead of -O3. The smaller binary, besides using less memory, also tends to run faster on systems with small L1 code caches.

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