nodejs setTimeout memory leak?

Question

v0.10.4

Here\'s the simple loop that results in an ever-increasing memory usage:

function redx(){
      setTimeout(function(){ redx() },1000);
      cons         


        

Answer 1

No idea why but apparently if you reference the timeout object in the scope of the function nodejs will do the garbage collect that correctly.

function redx(){
      var t = setTimeout(function(){ redx() },50);
      console.log('hi');
}

redx();