Your Node is Leaking Memory? setTimeout Could be the Reason

from blog Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings, | ↗ original
This is mostly an FYI for node developers. The issue being discussed in this post has caused us quite a bit of pain. It has to do with how node deals with timeouts. In short: you can very easily create memory leaks [1] with the setTimeout API in node. You're probably familiar with that API since it's one that browsers provide for many, many...