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                        JavaScript heap out of memory after upgrade to Jest 26
🐛 Bug Report
I upgraded from 24.X to 26.0.0 but now test that was passing is not
Running test takes long time to complete then I get this error

To Reproduce
My test:
  describe('when item ids are in sessionStorage', () => {
    const itemIds = [333, 222, 111];
    beforeEach(() => {
      parseLocationToQueries.mockImplementation(() => ({
        queue_id: testQueueId
      }));
      isAdHocReviewByItemId.mockReturnValue(false);
      isAdHocReviewByObjId.mockReturnValue(false);
      setItemsToBeReviewed(itemIds);
    });
    it('initial fetch', () => {
      const wrapper = tf.render();
      expect(wrapper.state('itemIds')).toEqual([]);
      expect(axios.post).toBeCalledWith('/review/items', { item_ids: itemIds });
    });
    it('fetch more while no more', () => {
      const wrapper = tf.render();
      axios.post.mockClear();
      wrapper.instance().fetchMoreItems();
      expect(axios.post).not.toBeCalled();
    });
    it('fetch more while more', () => {
      const wrapper = tf.render();
      axios.post.mockClear();
      wrapper.setState({ itemIds: [555] });
      wrapper.instance().fetchMoreItems();
      expect(axios.post).toBeCalledWith('/review/items', { item_ids: [555] });
    });
  });
code:
export function setItemsToBeReviewed(itemIds) {
  sessionStorage.setItem(ITEMS_TO_BE_REVIEWED_KEY, JSON.stringify(itemIds));
}
  fetchMoreItems = () => {
    this.setState({ loadingMoreItems: true });
    return this.fetchItems(true)
      .then(res => {
        this.loadData(res.data);
      })
      .catch(error => {
        console.log('FetchmoreError', error);
      });
  };
  fetchItems = (excludeAssigned: boolean = false) => {
    let request;
    if (this.state.itemIds) {
      request = this.fetchItemsByIds();
    } else {
      request = this.fetchItemsFIFO(excludeAssigned);
    }
    return request;
  };
  fetchItemsFIFO = (excludeAssigned: boolean = false) => {
    const { isAlignment, queueIdFromURL } = this.state;
    const url = '/review/assign';
    const params = {
      alignment: isAlignment,
      queue_id: queueIdFromURL,
      exclude_assigned: excludeAssigned
    };
    return axios.get<any>(url, { params });
  };
  fetchItemsByIds = () => {
    if (_.isEmpty(this.state.itemIds)) {
      return Promise.resolve({ data: [] });
    }
    const url = '/review/items';
    const data = {
      item_ids: _.slice(this.state.itemIds, 0, FETCH_BATCH_SIZE)
    };
    this.setState(state => ({
      itemIds: _.slice(state.itemIds, FETCH_BATCH_SIZE)
    }));
    return axios.post<any, any>(url, data);
  };
jest.config:
module.exports = {
  timers: 'fake',
  moduleDirectories: ['node_modules'],
  moduleFileExtensions: ['js', 'jsx'],
  moduleNameMapper: {
    '\\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|eot|otf|webp|svg|ttf|woff|woff2|mp4|webm|wav|mp3|m4a|aac|oga)$':
      '<rootDir>/__mocks__/fileMock.js',
    '\\.(css|less)$': '<rootDir>/__mocks__/styleMock.js',
    '^Root(.*)$': '<rootDir>$1',
    '^Utils(.*)$': '<rootDir>/src/utils$1',
    '^Hoc(.*)$': '<rootDir>/src/hoc$1',
    '^Components(.*)$': '<rootDir>/src/components$1'
  },
  testRegex: 'test\\.jsx?$',
  testURL: 'http://localhost:3000',
  collectCoverageFrom: [
    'src/**/*.js',
    'src/**/*.jsx',
    '!**/node_modules/**',
    '!src/components/bulk_review/columns/**',
    '!src/components/v2/**'
  ],
  coverageReporters: ['html', 'text'],
  coverageThreshold: {
    global: {
      branches: 90,
      functions: 90,
      lines: 90,
      statements: 90
    }
  },
  coverageDirectory: 'coverage',
  snapshotSerializers: ['enzyme-to-json/serializer'],
  testEnvironment: '<rootDir>/jest-environment.js',
  setupFilesAfterEnv: ['<rootDir>/enzyme.setup.js'],
  setupFiles: [
    '<rootDir>/__mocks__/localStorageMock.js',
    '<rootDir>/__mocks__/consoleMock.js'
  ],
  globals: {
    ENVIRONMENT: 'TESTING'
  },
  testPathIgnorePatterns: ['<rootDir>/src/components/v2'],
  reporters: [
    'default',
    [
      'jest-html-reporter',
      {
        pageTitle: 'Test Report',
        statusIgnoreFilter: 'passed',
        includeFailureMsg: 'true'
      }
    ]
  ]
};
envinfo
System: OS: Linux 4.15 Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver) CPU: (36) x64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz Binaries: Node: 14.1.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.1.0/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.4 - /usr/bin/yarn npm: 6.14.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.1.0/bin/npm npmPackages: jest: ^26.0.0 => 26.0.0
We will need a repro that can be downloaded and analyzed.
Also, please make sure to clear cache just in case, e.g with jest --clear-cache
Oh --clear-cache fixed it.
Thanks, that's good to know. Still weird
I spoke too soon, it seems like the issue is this helper function:
export function setItemsToBeReviewed(itemIds) {
  sessionStorage.setItem(ITEMS_TO_BE_REVIEWED_KEY, JSON.stringify(itemIds));
}
We will need a repro that can be downloaded and analyzed.
This is still the case 🙂
Also sounds like JSDOM leaking
Not sure if it is related. But I get heap leak for simple expect:
  let items = tree.root.findAllByProps({ testID: 'CrewItem.Employee' })
  expect(items).toHaveLength(8) // stacked and throws leak in 30-60 seconds
  expect(items.length).toEqual(8) // works ok
Clearing cache doesn't help
I am facing similar issues
Same issue here as well. (using ts-jest)
I got it during a full run in which some tests failed. I spent some time debugging and taking memory snapshots and comparing.. I couldn’t find any leaks. I ran it with inspect in watch mode, run in band, took a snapshot after the first run, then ran again and took another. Is that the best way to find leaks?
I think I'm running into the same issue. Created a new app recently with Jest 26. Using Enzyme for snapshot testing. Updated a test to use mount instead of shallow and now it gets out of memory errors everytime I run it even if it's the only test running. Node's out there using something like 1.5GB. This is with or without coverage and I've tried clearing cache as well. I can provide my repo as an example if needed.
I posted an issue to Enzyme https://github.com/enzymejs/enzyme/issues/2405#issuecomment-646957124
Below is the error I get on this test
Test suite failed to run
    Call retries were exceeded
      at ChildProcessWorker.initialize (node_modules/jest-runner/node_modules/jest-worker/build/workers/ChildProcessWorker.js:191:21)
<--- Last few GCs --->
[3466:0x39d1050]    32366 ms: Mark-sweep 1390.7 (1425.4) -> 1390.2 (1425.9) MB, 714.3 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.110, current mu = 0.013) allocation failure scavenge might not succeed
[3466:0x39d1050]    33470 ms: Mark-sweep 1391.0 (1425.9) -> 1390.5 (1426.4) MB, 1091.8 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.053, current mu = 0.010) allocation failure scavenge might not succeed
<--- JS stacktrace --->
==== JS stack trace =========================================
    0: ExitFrame [pc: 0x23bdb465be1d]
    1: StubFrame [pc: 0x23bdb465d1df]
Security context: 0x1e8e53f9e6c1 <JSObject>
    2: printBasicValue(aka printBasicValue) [0x2c6a1c7d28e1] [<root>/node_modules/jest-snapshot/node_modules/pretty-format/build/index.js:~108] [pc=0x23bdb4dcdac1](this=0x00329d2826f1 <undefined>,val=0x3125160c22e1 <String[14]: onSubMenuClick>,printFunctionName=0x00329...
I tried removing random test suites from my tests but still jest memory leaks. So there is no particular test causing the leak.
I had a similar problem where I used to run into Out of Memory error when Jest started to do coverage on "untested files".
Using v8 as coverage provider solved the issue for me.
However, its an experimental feature (as per documentation) -
https://jestjs.io/blog/2020/01/21/jest-25#v8-code-coverage
After doing some research, it seems this memory leak has been an ongoing issue since 2019 (Jest 22) so wanted to consolidate some notes here for posterity.  Past issues have been related to graceful-fs and I think some have solved it via a hack/workaround that removes graceful-fs and then re-adds graceful-js after running jest.  One troubleshooting thread was looking at compileFunction in the vm package as a potential cause.  It seems that jest, webpack-dev-server, babel, and create-react-app are using graceful-js as a dependency.  The memory leak issue was supposed to be fixed in a newer release of Jest but there may have been a regression since it is popping up again.  I can confirm everything was working fine until a substantial amount of Jest tests were created in our environment and then the heap overflows on our CI machine after the heap size grows larger than the allocated memory due to the leak.  I've tried using 1 worker, runInBand, etc. without success.
The common cause of the issues I've seen is collecting coverage via collecting coverage and graceful-fs. I haven't done an in-depth analysis of those issues but seeing that they are both filesystem-related and having solved my own issue which was related to file imports I suspect they are some version of the same issue I was having.
Wanted to provide the solution I found so others may reap benefits:
The cause:
Using imports of the format import * from 'whatever'
The solution:
Using the format import { whatINeed } from 'whatever' instead dramatically reduced the memory accumulation
Often times when this happens, I delete the src folder (provided it's on version control) and run
git checkout .
and
jest --clearCache
and now running the tests again works as before. In my case, not sure it has anything to do with upgrade  but since it has occurred a few times over the last 6 months i thought to share
+1 @alexfromapex solution did not worked for me.
Jest 26.6.3 Node 14.15.4
Dump: https://pastebin.com/Mfwi2iiA
It happens after some re-runs on any CI server (my runners are docker containers). Always after a fresh boot it works normally, and after some runs, it breaks again, only comming back after a new reboot. I tried with 1GB RAM and 2GB RAM machines, same result. It seems not happening with 8GB+ RAM hardware (my local machine).
Some other info I've gathered, it happens always after ~5m running, everytime the test log has the same size (it might be happening at same spot).
i have the same issue
I have very similar issue,
My test:
const first = [ div_obj, p_obj, a_obj ]; // array with three DOM elements
const second = [ div_obj, p_obj, a_obj ]; // array with same DOM elements
second.push( pre_obj ); // add new obj
expect(first).toEqual(second); // compare two arrays one 3 elements other 4 elements
test should fail within 250 ms (timeout), but it takes 40 sec and it spits out message:
FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
...
<--- JS stacktrace --->
==== JS stack trace =========================================
    0: ExitFrame [pc: 0x55e78ec781b9]
Security context: 0x086b49dc08d1 <JSObject>
    1: toString [0x2cb560879521](this=0x1a95f0796eb1 <Object map = 0x2b3cdd5e4839>)
    2: printComplexValue(aka printComplexValue) [0x329610605059] [/home/joe/../node_modules/pretty-format/build/index.js:~198] [pc=0x1413a8b0e5ac](this=0x059db4cc04b1 <undefined>,0x1a95f0796eb1 <Object map = 0x2b3cdd5...
Somehow I believe stack trace points to printComplexValue. I also tried toMatchObject, but exactly the same.
Jest: v26.6.3
I have a similar issue with:
Node: 15.5.1 Jest: 25.5.4
It seems not happening with 8GB+ RAM hardware (my local machine).
Update: It just happened in my local host with 8GB ram, but this time in watch mode and outside docker, running a single test, after consecutive file saves (without waiting tests to finish).
Here is the dump: https://pastebin.com/jrDkCYiH
IDK if this help, but here is the memory status when it happened:
[klarkc@ssdarch ~]$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7738        3731        2621         473        1385        3226
Swap:          8191        2133        6058
I had this same error on my Gitlab CI and I just temporary added the -clearCache jest option and it works well.
We see this regularly on our tests at https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate
We see this regularly on our tests -- the first one succeeds then the second fails.
Have no idea why this worked for me but I had accidentally removed 'js' from moduleFileExtensions in my jest.config.ts and then that's when my heap issues started going wild. But when I added it back, my heap issues went away.
So now I have moduleFileExtensions: ['js', 'ts']. Hopefully this helps someone!
This also happened to me: https://github.com/icecream17/solver/runs/2562701426?check_suite_focus=true in https://github.com/icecream17/solver/actions/runs/834149179
Failing commit: https://github.com/icecream17/solver/commit/7956c084b9dbbdfb721a2c56b7bea66eb83cc555, fixed commit: https://github.com/icecream17/solver/commit/06064acf014a0adb73d918cff3ea18657b3b2feb Update: I managed to use typescript again: https://github.com/icecream17/solver/commit/1b9f406ef14ece14c14ce6f14ccacac7f7b247ad
(Sorry for the unhelpful links)
Since this is a heap issue, maybe triggering garbage collection and de-referencing unused or global variables will also help fix? Look out for things that are leaving lots of memory hanging around in the heap.
I was facing the same error on GitHub actions. I was able to pin down the problem in my case to the currently experimental ESM support #9430.
For comparison here are two profiling screenshots (I followed this article for instructions):
CJS (leaked ~20mb)

ESM (leaked ~1gb 😱 )

I can prevent this error by using fake timers:
jest.test.setup.js:
jest.useFakeTimers();
i was running into this issue and it appears that upgrading to jest 27 fixed it
Upgrading from Jest 23 to 24 is triggering this for me. Are folks who are on Jest 27 relieved from this issue?