I was running my NextJs project and during development, it broke for an unknown reason and logged this error message:
<--- Last few GCs --->
[8728:000001A567CE5290] 8719226 ms: Mark-sweep (reduce) 1827.7 (1944.2) -> 1827.7 (1897.2) MB, 668.1 / 0.0 ms (average mu = 0.411, current mu = 0.171) last resort; GC in old space requested
[8728:000001A567CE5290] 8720395 ms: Mark-sweep (reduce) 1827.7 (1897.2) -> 1827.7 (1889.5) MB, 1169.6 / 0.0 ms (average mu = 0.173, current mu = 0.000) last resort; GC in old space requested
<--- JS stacktrace --->
FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
1: 00007FF72EB507BF node_api_throw_syntax_error+175823
2: 00007FF72EAD5796 DSA_meth_get_flags+59654
3: 00007FF72EAD7480 DSA_meth_get_flags+67056
4: 00007FF72F57DCC4 v8::Isolate::ReportExternalAllocationLimitReached+116
5: 00007FF72F569052 v8::Isolate::Exit+674
6: 00007FF72F3FFB6E v8::internal::HeapAllocator::AllocateRawWithRetryOrFailSlowPath+4030
7: 00007FF72F40703A v8::internal::Factory::CodeBuilder::AllocateCode+106
8: 00007FF72F407CF1 v8::internal::Factory::CodeBuilder::BuildInternal+641
9: 00007FF72F407956 v8::internal::Factory::CodeBuilder::Build+22
10: 00007FF72EE59BC7 v8::internal::RegExpMacroAssemblerX64::GetCode+4215
11: 00007FF72F125AAE v8::internal::RegExpErrorString+9390
12: 00007FF72F10FCF1 v8::PropertyDescriptor::value+6081
13: 00007FF72F11020C v8::internal::RegExp::CompileForTesting+764
14: 00007FF72F1107F8 v8::internal::RegExp::DotPrintForTesting+248
15: 00007FF72F11187B v8::internal::RegExp::ExperimentalOneshotExec+2795
16: 00007FF72F11138D v8::internal::RegExp::ExperimentalOneshotExec+1533
17: 00007FF72F110CD8 v8::internal::RegExp::Exec+216
18: 00007FF72F0EEBC2 v8::internal::DeclarationScope::was_lazily_parsed+22994
19: 00007FF72F61B1F1 v8::internal::SetupIsolateDelegate::SetupHeap+558193
20: 00007FF72F67DE8A v8::internal::SetupIsolateDelegate::SetupHeap+962826
21: 00007FF6AFBA1BBA
I was trying to run my project on my local machine. But I am curious to know what you think the cause might be.