I am on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS.

node -v = 17.6.0

nvm -v = 0.39.1

npm -v = 8.7.0

jest -v = 27.5.1

I am trying to run a 'test.js' script using jest. This is the command I tryied in my project folder :

jest chunk/test.js --watch

I get this output :

 RUNS  chunk/test.js

<--- Last few GCs --->

[13746:0x4b3ad20]    29062 ms: Scavenge 2059.4 (2096.0) -> 2059.2 (2107.0) MB, 10.2 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.200, current mu = 0.165) allocation failure 
[13746:0x4b3ad20]    29090 ms: Scavenge 2066.2 (2107.0) -> 2067.0 (2107.8) MB, 14.1 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.200, current mu = 0.165) allocation failure 
[13746:0x4b3ad20]    29108 ms: Scavenge 2067.0 (2107.8) -> 2066.2 (2131.0) MB, 17.6 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.200, current mu = 0.165) allocation failure 


<--- JS stacktrace --->

FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
 1: 0xb2e180 node::Abort() [node]
 2: 0xa4019e node::FatalError(char const*, char const*) [node]
 3: 0xd1fc3e v8::Utils::ReportOOMFailure(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, bool) [node]
 4: 0xd1ffb7 v8::internal::V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, bool) [node]
 5: 0xed93e5  [node]
 6: 0xed9ec6  [node]
 7: 0xee9b3c  [node]
 8: 0xeea5b0 v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbage(v8::internal::AllocationSpace, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason, v8::GCCallbackFlags) [node]
 9: 0xeed4d5 v8::internal::Heap::HandleGCRequest() [node]
10: 0xe783d7 v8::internal::StackGuard::HandleInterrupts() [node]
11: 0x122eb05 v8::internal::Runtime_StackGuard(int, unsigned long*, v8::internal::Isolate*) [node]
12: 0x1632879  [node]
Abandon (core dumped)

I tried this :

export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=8192"

But the result is that my computer freezes, and in the end the output is the same.

Thanks !!