i just ran into a problem with my node webkit app using express framework.
Situation:
I successfully built the app with ~ 150mb, including some dummy data. I'm zipping the whole project and rename it to .nw according to the instructions readme. Everything is working fine.
BUT:
When adding the actual content to the app, the app size grows up to 3.8gb. It seems that my windows machine (4GB RAM / 32bit windows 7) can't start the app. I've waited almost an hour - several times, but still nothing happens - no error message, no hourglass cursor - just nothing.
Does anyone know of any limitation regarding node app size which could possibly cause this "misbehaviour"? It runs flawlessly on my mac with 8GB RAM, so i guess there's the rub...
If you could just help me, that'd be great, thanks in advance!
This article should explain part of your problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_GB_barrier
The other part of your problem: Are you sure you need to load all 3.8GB of that application at once? There are relatively few applications where that would be a hard requirement. Is there a part of your application that you could refactor in order to have a much smaller portion in memory at any single time?