Garbage Collector Tracing Options

Ever had to debug the GC? Do not miss these flags to get more details in the console!

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Peter K
January 23, 2025

Every Node.Js Engineer has faced some kind of issues with the GC, and had to debug it. The most common option is to use the —trace-gc, but did You know that there are multiple options to trace the GC? You can read the ones that I have used in the past and helped me fix problems.

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