Hello team! My node red clashes after few hours of use. Here below is an image of the message display anytime it clashes. [IMG_2044] . Any idea on what could be the cause of this failure, please…. Thanks in advance

Thank you. It is actually the sqlite node. The frequency at which data are treated and written into the SQLite database is too high. At a frequency of 1 second, node js takes 1 hour to hit memory limit(2G). At 5 minutes, it takes close to 7 hours. But my project’s target is to monitor Gensets’ oper…

Okay, what do you suggest I do? Here below is the error code 29 Jul 19:20:56 - [info] Welcome to Node-RED =================== 29 Jul 19:20:56 - [info] Node-RED version: v4.0.9 29 Jul 19:20:56 - [info] Node.js version: v22.17.1 29 Jul 19:20:56 - [info] Windows_NT 10.0.19045 x64 LE 29 Jul 19:20:5…

[image] Desmond-Zeh: No it didn’t Did it make any difference? Monitor the memory usage in whatever system monitor is available (I don't use windows) and see whether the memory is building up slowly or suddenly, leading up to the failure?

Not really. This time around it crashes without any data processing.

I left it ON yesterday at 7 pm and woke up this morning to find it crashed, but non of the generators was in service

Why pondering on a better solution, how do I increase the node.js memory?

Why pondering on a better solution, hod do I increase the node.ja heap memory ?

[image] Desmond-Zeh: how do I increase the node.js memory? Firstly check how you are starting up Node-RED. If it has a memory (old-space) parameter on the startup, take that off so that node.js can fully manage its memory itself. Other than that, trying to micro-manage the heap is generally …

Thanks for the reply. How do I check my sqlite data length because to be honest, I have very lengthy data tables in my database

Assuming that they are written to the filing system, you can simply check their file size. I expect there are admin statements as well but I’m afraid that my SQL is very rusty.

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Okay thank you

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