node/test/parallel/test-worker-memory.js

// Flags: --experimental-worker
'use strict';
const common = require('../common');
const assert = require('assert');
const util = require('util');
const { Worker } = require('worker_threads');

const numWorkers = +process.env.JOBS || require('os').cpus().length;

// Verify that a Worker's memory isn't kept in memory after the thread finishes.

function run(n, done) {
  if (n <= 0)
    return done();
  const worker = new Worker(
    'require(\'worker_threads\').parentPort.postMessage(2 + 2)',
    { eval: true });
  worker.on('message', common.mustCall((value) => {
    assert.strictEqual(value, 4);
  }));
  worker.on('exit', common.mustCall(() => {
    run(n - 1, done);
  }));
}

const startStats = process.memoryUsage();
let finished = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < numWorkers; ++i) {
  run(60 / numWorkers, () => {
    if (++finished === numWorkers) {
      const finishStats = process.memoryUsage();
      // A typical value for this ratio would be ~1.15.
      // 5 as a upper limit is generous, but the main point is that we
      // don't have the memory of 50 Isolates/Node.js environments just lying
      // around somewhere.
      assert.ok(finishStats.rss / startStats.rss < 5,
                'Unexpected memory overhead: ' +
                util.inspect([startStats, finishStats]));
    }
  });
}