What's the node.js memory breakdown?

Question

We are deploying a Node.js application. This app seems to be consuming way more RSS memory than it should. So we started to dive into things and we found the following, thanks t

Answer 1

Without knowing what your app is doing, it is impossible to comment on this.

If the V8 heap usage is significantly lower than the RSS, then yes, it must be external buffers and other memory used by non-V8 objects.

Can you make some code public?