Upgrade Problem from 1.12.2 to 1.13.3 build process never ends

[suparomana]

Hi guys,
I tried to upgrade Nodebb from v1.12.2 to v1.13.3. After ./nodebb upgrade everything is fine except the build process, see screenshot for details. The process never ends after templates. I had a look in the folder and the data is there, but if I stop the process the frontend is broken.

The road to this point was quite bumpy. It took 3-4 attempts to come to this points. I had to clear a few npm-errors with missing dependencies. I tried to roll back completely from a backup, but the result is the same. I tried to upgrade to v1.14.x but the result is still the same.

System data:
OS: CentOS 7
Node v12.19.0
npm 6.14.8

Does anybody know how to resolve this problem?

Thanks for any help!
Christian

[baris]

Does it build if you use persona theme?

Did you try building in series mode with ./nodebb build --series.

Does the server have enough ram?

[suparomana]

Hi @baris!
Great, the build fininshed with ./nodebb build --series. Thanks!

I will keep this command. After that I tried again ./nodebb upgrade and monitored with top the ram an CPU usage. The build process broke with an error
Error occurred during upgrade: Error: ENOMEM: not enough memory, read
I got this error the first time. In all my other attemps no error occured.

How much ram is recommended for the usage of nodebb?

[gotwf]

@suparomana Define "Usage"

How much provisioning did you allocate? In my experience, one needs a fair bit more RAM for builds than day to day operations. Ditto CPU horsepower. The --series flag is news to me as well. If that still takes too long to build: Do you have the ability to scale up provisioning for builds and then scale back down for day to day operations?

[baris]

1gb ram with some swap is usually fine to run ./nodebb build

[suparomana]

@baris 1gb ram is a lot.. we are running our forum on a shared host, so I can not increase the amount of ram.

Nodebb is running very smoothly and super fast there and we get a lot of positive feedback from our users. Our complete userbase is about 600 users big and we never had a performance issue in about 3 years.

I assume that the needed ram could be a problem for a lot of nodebb users. Do you think it would be possible to make the --series option available for the build function ./nodebb build --series ? If yes, where should I place this request?

[PitaJ]

@suparomana what are you asking for? Doesn't ./nodebb build --series already work?

If you're asking to make it the default, there's also the option of placing "series": true in your config.json

[suparomana]

@pitaj great! This is what I am looking for. And you understood it even though I wrote it wrong. Actually I would ask for ./nodebb upgrade --series but a config option is much better. Thank you! It would be great if you could include this option in the documentation.