Crash after allocation failure

[jhartma]

• Operating System: Arch Linux
• Cypress Version: 1.2.0, but also all previous versions
• Browser Version: shipped Electron version

Is this a Feature or Bug?

Bug

Current behavior:

I have a quite extensive test suite running. On their own, the tests run just fine, but when I click on the "Run all tests" button in the electron window, Cypress crashes after a while. When running tests in the console, it works fine.

<--- Last few GCs --->

  272175 ms: Mark-sweep 1398.6 (1504.2) -> 1397.9 (1504.2) MB, 408.7 / 3.3 ms [allocation failure] [GC in old space requested].
  272755 ms: Mark-sweep 1397.9 (1504.2) -> 1397.9 (1489.2) MB, 579.9 / 35.7 ms [last resort gc].
  273252 ms: Mark-sweep 1397.9 (1489.2) -> 1397.5 (1489.2) MB, 496.1 / 33.5 ms [last resort gc].


<--- JS stacktrace --->

==== JS stack trace =========================================

Security context: 0x149c585deba9 <a Window with map 0x8a3a160c709>
    1: StringReplaceGlobalRegExpWithFunction [native regexp.js:~448] [pc=0x154714707ecb](this=0x2ee831a2a489 <JS Global Object>,W=0x2bc4b839e749 <Very long string[1425151]>,C=0xeb37ade4db9 <JS RegExp>,aw=0x9e572c5521 <JS Function (SharedFunctionInfo 0x3e75501b2559)>)
    2: RegExpReplace [native regexp.js:~528] [pc=0x1547146cb455](this=0xeb37ade4db9 <JS RegExp>,D=0x2bc4b83...

Desired behavior:

Should continue running tests

[brian-mann]

Closing this as a duplicate. This is a well known and documented aspect of Cypress. The GUI is not built to run all tests because of the way Cypress creates debuggability.

The CLI is the only place where you should be running all your tests and it opts for performance and longer runs as opposed to the GUI. The GUI is only there for test writing and iterations, whereas the CLI is there for running your tests to completion.

If you want all the details check out this issue - we have major changes coming to this (hopefully in Dec) which solve / address these issues.

• Proposal: enable spec globbing, enforce isolated renderer processes for each spec #681
• Tests slows down to a crawl and eventually times out/crashes #990 (comment)
• --spec flag should accept array of files or glob pattern #416 (comment)