joyent/node — pull request #4660 by jmatthewsr-ms (2013-01-25 03:59:46+00:00)
Title: Fix avoid apps from retaining references to the upgrade head and large s...

For consideration, at the very least to raise awareness to apps handling buffers from node core.

Please see https://github.com/jmatthewsr-ms/node-slab-memory-issues for an explanation. Three modules are identified that suffer from high memory usage by retaining a reference to the upgrade head data.