# Out of memory crash on Windows 10 PC

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/out-of-memory-crash-on-windows-10-pc/54141>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [22 November 2021 22:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/out-of-memory-crash-on-windows-10-pc/54141 "2021-11-22T22:40:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![thebaldgeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/thebaldgeek/32/93523_2.png) [@thebaldgeek](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/thebaldgeek)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2021 00:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/out-of-memory-crash-on-windows-10-pc/54141/13 "2021-11-24T00:58:34Z")

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I took the site down for about 15 minutes and tested a lot of different --userDir options from the docs and none of them gave me my flows. I got blank flows and 'Welcome to Node-RED 2.0' intro splash screens, but nothing with my flows.  
Would like to figure out how to start Node-RED with my flows and `--max-old-space-size=81928`

I next tried the new `node-red-node-mysql@next` and had the same insert issues as [last time I tried to use a different version](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/update-broke-mysql-old-versions-of-node-red-nodes-have-been-removed-why-and-where-are-they/50688/) of the MySQL node.

Learning from that last attempt, I had a full .node-red back up so just copied all the nodes back over and I am back up and running for the next 24 hour crash cycle.

Next job is to put the GC script into a function block and graph it to see whats going on.

Grateful for all the help, not a chance I would digging into this with out the support.

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