not enough memory

[causten]

I tried the npm install command on a virtualbox ubuntu 16.04. Memory was 10466MB.

<--- JS stacktrace --->
Cannot get stack trace in GC.
FATAL ERROR: NewSpace::Rebalance Allocation failed - process out of memory
 1: node::Abort() [npm]
 2: 0x13c7b5c [npm]
 3: v8::Utils::ReportOOMFailure(char const*, bool) [npm]
 4: v8::internal::V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory(char const*, bool) [npm]
 5: 0xaf9b8b [npm]
 6: v8::internal::MarkCompactCollector::Evacuate() [npm]
 7: v8::internal::MarkCompactCollector::CollectGarbage() [npm]
 8: v8::internal::Heap::MarkCompact() [npm]
 9: v8::internal::Heap::PerformGarbageCollection(v8::internal::GarbageCollector, v8::GCCallbackFlags) [npm]
10: v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbage(v8::internal::GarbageCollector, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason, char const*, v8::GCCallbackFlags) [npm]
11: v8::internal::Heap::FinalizeIncrementalMarkingIfComplete(v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason) [npm]
12: v8::internal::IncrementalMarkingJob::Task::RunInternal() [npm]
13: v8::internal::CancelableTask::Run() [npm]
14: v8::platform::DefaultPlatform::PumpMessageLoop(v8::Isolate*, v8::platform::MessageLoopBehavior) [npm]
15: node::Start(uv_loop_s*, int, char const* const*, int, char const* const*) [npm]
16: node::Start(int, char**) [npm]
17: __libc_start_main [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6]
18: _start [npm]

How much memory do I need?

[olegdovger]

I got the same error ((

[gtmills]

@causten I assume you got this to work? How much memory did you need? I have never seen this problem.

[edtanous]

Can this be closed?

[gtmills]

Closing. Please reopen if still a problem. thanks!