OG post here: https://community.fly.io/t/node-js-app-deployed-for-2-years-no-problem-suddenly-oom/27269?u=cobypear
I was able to update to the latest version of node (24 lts) and Strapi (5.38.0). I ended up needed to bump to the 512mb memory tier in order to get the app to start due to the extra juice needed for the DB migrations. OK fine.
But the app runs idle at just under 256mb. I realize that is not a lot of headroom but this app gets very little traffic, and as I mentioned in the original post, the app had no issues at the 256mb RAM tier.
With the latest deploy and RAM bump, I’m realizing the cap of the 256mb tier is actually 207mb, so even though I had enough RAM to run the app for 2+ years, something changed and shaved a bit of RAM off my machine and caused the machine to crashloop.
Just wanted to follow up because I’m not exactly sure why this started happening with 0 changes to the app or traffic.