# NodeRED Process Crashing

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-process-crashing/43053>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [23 March 2021 01:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-process-crashing/43053 "2021-03-23T01:19:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![bkdfkup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bkdfkup/32/33024_2.png) [@bkdfkup](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bkdfkup)\
**Post date:** [23 March 2021 01:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-process-crashing/43053/1 "2021-03-23T01:19:21Z")

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Hi all.

Having an issue where since migrating from an ubuntu-based node-red instance to a Raspbian-based instance, the node-red process is frequently crashing and (as I am running it as a service) is restarting. Due to the functions of some flows, this is creating a few headaches and I would like assistance troubleshooting please.

I have run node-red-log to capture the events prior to the process restart, and have captured the following:

 ![Screenshot_20210323-120446~2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/c/c/cc5cc131f1403bbbacbbdeb96dfdbd8ccc73eb08.jpeg)

Can anyone guide me regarding next steps to identify what is killing the process?

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [23 March 2021 08:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-process-crashing/43053/2 "2021-03-23T08:42:49Z")

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As you can see the screenshot only gives us limited information. When posting logs or code it is much better to copy/paste the text here. See this post for details of how to do that - [How to share code or flow json](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-share-code-or-flow-json/506).

However it can be seen that the last error comes from an RBE node with the id shown. That suggests that you have configured an RBE node to watch a property currentValue of a message property that does not exist.

That log does not show node-red crashing however.

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**Author:** ![bkdfkup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bkdfkup/32/33024_2.png) [@bkdfkup](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bkdfkup)\
**Post date:** [23 March 2021 21:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-process-crashing/43053/3 "2021-03-23T21:05:57Z")

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Update. I have identified OOM\_Reaper is killing the process. So I need to try identify what is utilising excess memory. After a restart, I can see that node-red is using only about 2% of a total 8gb ram, so there is either a slow memory leak or something spiking the men use.

Re the logs, I will collect more and copy-paste as suggested. Thanks for the advice.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [22 May 2021 21:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-process-crashing/43053/4 "2021-05-22T21:06:27Z")

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