Epic memory leak when installing on Windows 8.1 x64

[jackdpeterson]

executing npm install --save-dev broccoli-sass results in OOM on the box within a very short period of time.

Also attempted npm install -g broccoli-sass

Output hangs at
PS E:> npm install -g broccoli-sass
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node-sass@1.1.4 install C:\Users\Jack\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\broccoli-sass\node_modules\node-sass
node build.js
win32-x64-v8-3.14 exists; testing

[jackdpeterson]

NPM version: 1.4.28
RAM: 16GB
-- available on start: ~12GB.

[joliss]

broccoli-sass is a thin wrapper around node-sass. Can you find the version of node-sass that triggers this for you, and report it on their repo please? It might be a node-sass or a libsass issue, but the node-sass folks should know more in any case.

[mmrcdx]

epic leak indeed! I'm experiencing the same issue on Win 8.1, it eats up GBs of memory.

sass/node-sass#497

[simonexmachina]

Closing this issue for the reasons outlined by joliss above.