Problema con npm e memory

[fermat]

ciao!

sto cercando un pacchetto tramite npm, ma ottengo questo errore:

$ npm --max_old_space_size=4096 search express
npm WARN Building the local index for the first time, please be patient
[..................] / : WARN Building the local index for the first time, please be patient
<--- Last few GCs --->

   72621 ms: Mark-sweep 1033.8 (1351.3) -> 1008.0 (1325.1) MB, 621.6 / 0.0 ms [allocation failure] [GC in old space requested].
   73304 ms: Mark-sweep 1008.0 (1325.1) -> 1007.9 (1287.1) MB, 683.1 / 0.0 ms [last resort gc].
   73948 ms: Mark-sweep 1007.9 (1287.1) -> 1007.9 (1279.1) MB, 643.8 / 0.0 ms [last resort gc].


<--- JS stacktrace --->

==== JS stack trace =========================================

Security context: 0x1768c51cfb51 <JS Object>
    1: fromString(aka fromString) [buffer.js:199] [pc=0x392419bcdcb0] (this=0x1768c5104381 <undefined>,string=0x1b4f34c0c449 <Very long string[210446082]>,encoding=0x1768c51dd361 <String[4]: utf8>)
    2: from [buffer.js:99] [pc=0x392419b85002] (this=0x1cec846d9301 <JS Function Buffer (SharedFunctionInfo 0x90c6daf71d9)>,value=0x1b4f34c0c449 <Very long string[210446082]>,encodingOrOffset=0x1768c...

FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
 1: node::Abort() [npm]
 2: 0xd6b04c [npm]
 3: v8::Utils::ReportApiFailure(char const*, char const*) [npm]
 4: v8::internal::V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory(char const*, bool) [npm]
 5: v8::internal::Factory::NewRawTwoByteString(int, v8::internal::PretenureFlag) [npm]
 6: v8::internal::String::SlowFlatten(v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::ConsString>, v8::internal::PretenureFlag) [npm]
 7: v8::internal::String::Flatten(v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::String>, v8::internal::PretenureFlag) [npm]
 8: v8::String::WriteUtf8(char*, int, int*, int) const [npm]
 9: node::StringBytes::Write(v8::Isolate*, char*, unsigned long, v8::Local<v8::Value>, node::encoding, int*) [npm]
10: node::Buffer::New(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::String>, node::encoding) [npm]
11: node::Buffer::CreateFromString(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&) [npm]
12: v8::internal::FunctionCallbackArguments::Call(void (*)(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&)) [npm]
13: 0x750adb [npm]
14: 0x7511a8 [npm]
15: 0x75130e [npm]
16: 0x3924195092a7
Annullato (core dump creato)

come vedete ho già provato ad allocare più memoria.
ma nulla da fare.
che posso fare??

[fermat]

il problema era che il tutto stava su chiavetta usb.
spostandolo sul pc ha funzionato tutto senza problemi.

[ciro78]