heroku-node

heroku-node
===========

As of node 2, the garbage collection defaults have changed such that
[1.5 GB is consumed][1] before garbage collection will occur. This is
especially problematic on platforms such as heroku which will force your
application to start swapping well before that limit is reached. Heroku
provides [$WEB_MEMORY][2] to let you know what that limit is. This wraps node
to inform it of that limit.

Installation
------------
``bash
npm install -S heroku-node
`

Usage
-----

Use heroku-node foo or whatever your application is called for
your npm start script. If you're using a Procfile, be sure to include the
path, node_modules/.bin/heroku-node. Essentially, use heroku-node wherever
you'd use plain old node`.

[1]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3370#issuecomment-148108323
[2]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-concurrency#tuning-the-concurrency-level