nuxt build halts the machine

[mattwang44]

The app is currently running on a GCE g1-small (0.5vCPU & 1.7GB memory). docker-compose up -d --build is used for deploying, but it started to occasionally halt the entire machine in the past month. Cannot be reproduced in the staging environment.

• We might need to make sure we did not create any change that leads to memory leakage first.
• Should also check if it's an issue regarding docker settings.
• One of the possible reasons is the building process takes up a significant amount of memory but g1-small only has 1.7 Gb. Due to the limited budget, limiting the memory usage of the building process would be a better option than upgrading the machine type.

[mattwang44]

Some findings: Just upgrade the machine type from g1-small to n1-standard (1vCPU & 3.7GB memory) and the building process runs much smoother.

[josix]

Current workaround: I just stop the running container through docker-compose stop, then continue to run docker-compose up -d --build to avoid the overhead happening.