conntest.js

var http = require('http');

var requestCounter = 0;
var startedRequests = 0;
var endedRequests = 0;

http.createServer(function (request, response) {
    request.number = requestCounter++;

    console.log("#" + request.number + " started");

    startedRequests++;

    request.on('end', function() {
      console.log("#" + request.number + " ended");
      endedRequests++;
    });

    response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    response.end('Hi there\n');
}).listen(8080);

setInterval(function() {
  console.log("[TOTAL] " + requestCounter + " [S] " + startedRequests + " [E] " + endedRequests + " [S-E] " + (startedRequests - endedRequests));
}, 1000);

The following code will cause memory leaks. Can this be avoided?

var http = require('http');

var requestCounter = 0;
var startedRequests = 0;
var endedRequests = 0;

http.createServer(function (request, response) {
request.number = requestCounter++;

request.connection.workload = 'x';
for (var i=0; i<1000000; i++) {request.connection.workload+='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';}

console.log("#" + request.number + " started");

startedRequests++;

request.on('end', function() {
  console.log("#" + request.number + " ended");
  endedRequests++;
});

response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
response.end('Hi there\n');

}).listen(8008,'192.168.2.95');

setInterval(function() {
console.log("[TOTAL] " + requestCounter + " [S] " + startedRequests + " [E] " + endedRequests + " [S-E] " + (startedRequests - endedRequests));
}, 1000);

Can't reproduce it with that code either, sorry. Resident memory size goes down again after the GC cleaned up on unused objects here and connections are ended correct. Maybe ask the mailing list if anybody else notices that problem.

Ok thank you very much for your time. I appreciate your help a lot. I will investigate on my side. Maybe it's the "formidable" library I am using.