Ghost clients

[vgb0332]

Hi, first I want to thank you for this library. It's awesome! saving a lot of time :)

There are 2 issues I'm having at the moment.

1. V8 Memory Burst
2. Unknown leftover clients

I'm using the library in Express, where I create one or more instances(already logged in) on HTTP requests, and after finishing with clients, close them accordingly by client.close().

For example,

router.get('/', async (req, res) => {
var key = getApiKeyFromDB()
var client1 = new Client({...});
//Ater done with client1, close
await client1.close();
...
var client2 = new Client({...});
...
await client2.close();
});

I haven't REALLY tested the problems and how they occur yet (can't find stable error patterns)
But, for issue 1, executing multiple client methods like in a loop, Express crashes throwing bunch of V8 errors, and restart.
For issue 2, in most cases, I think I properly close all the clients, but there are cases where there are yet unknown clients hanging around in the server, or unintentionally crashing into a same client from other processes like node-scheduler.

The memory issue I currently have no idea with it.
But for ghost clients, I wonder if there is a way to check for clients (like client list?) so another process can reuse or close.

[Roma-Kyrnis]

Hi, have you found a solution?

[Bannerets]

I don't understand this issue and how all of that is possible, but I welcome a reproducible example.

[vgb0332]

Hi, have you found a solution?

It's been so long i'm not sure if I remember clearly, but
issues came from

1. Memory shortage - each client holds quite some memory while alive.
2. Zombie processes - I later optimized the clients session by handling globally throughout all common processes.

Hope they help.

[Bannerets]

Open a new issue if you encounter anything like that (on the latest version).