I recently updated the versions of Node and NPM on my server on Forge from Node v14.19.0 to v18.17.1 and NPM v.6.14.16 to v9.6.7. I have also updated my dependencies. Not sure if this is relevant, but I needed to change Forge's password on the server.
When deploying, npm install runs fine but when I run npm run dev, I always get the response "Killed" from Forge. Specifically "npm verb exit 137", which indicates that I have run out of memory.
Here is the output:
> dev
> mix
QUEUE_CONNECTION set to "redis", make sure to start a queue worker.
● Mix █████████████████████████ emitting (98%)
after emit
Outbound Data: File generated!
Ziggy Routes: Files generated!
Killed
I have tried to fix this by adding the max-old-space-size to my script:
"dev": "NODE_OPTIONS=\"--max-old-space-size=8000\" mix "
However, this hasn't helped and the I keep getting the same error.
I have also tried to run npm run prod and am getting the same error.
I have also tried getting into the server via SSH and running npm run dev and npm run prod. Unfortunately, this doesn't give me any further information.
I have also tried running npm cache clean --force and then running npm run dev, but am having the same issue.
Any idea what could be happening here and how to fix it?
Thanks!
As was pointed out in the comments, the reason for the error was that the server was too small (despite working perfectly fine before). What fixed it was upgrading from a t3.small (2GB memory) to a t3.medium (4GB memory).