How to pass NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=24576" to librechat

[xueshanf]

We are running librechat 0.7.8 in kubernetes and trying to set `NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=24576" for node. We are not sure if the librechat npm process takes environment or not. Once deployed, inside of the container, we see this:

/app $ env |grep NODE_
NODE_VERSION=20.19.3
NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=24576"

/app $ ps -ef
PID   USER     TIME  COMMAND
    1 node      0:00 npm run backend
   18 node      0:00 node /app/node_modules/.bin/cross-env NODE_ENV=production node api/server/index.js
   25 node      4:08 node api/server/index.js
   43 node      0:00 sh
   66 node      0:00 ps -ef

How do can we know if npm/node takes the environment setting?

What we notice is the librechat process would be up and running a lot of cleanup process and the memory usage keeps going up until 16GB ish and the container would die and restart on its own, without obvious error.

We suspect NODE_OPTIONS memory tunning probably does not take effect...

Thanks for your help!