Cron just stops - Possible Memory Leak

I have a Cron job that just randomly stops. I started it at around 7:30PM and by 8:10 PM it just stopped.

I was logging output to my console and it just died.

 new CronJob('*/5 * * * * *', function(){
       console.log("***************************************************");
       console.log("Cron Start: " + Date());
       var https = require('https');
       var options = {
            host: 'api.twilio.com',
            port: 443,
            path: '/2010-04-01/Accounts/' + sid + '/Queues/'+ config.twilio.queue.sid  + '/Members.json',
            method: 'GET',
            auth: sid + ":" + auth,
            agent: false
       };
       var req = https.request(options, function(rex) {
         rex.setEncoding('utf8');
         rex.on('data', function (chunk) {
           try{
                  console.log("Cron Work : " + Date());
                 obj = JSON.parse(chunk);
                 io.sockets.emit('queue', {msg:obj.total.toString()});
                 io.sockets.emit('list', obj);
                 smsModel.find({agent: null}, function(err, results){
                          io.sockets.emit('chat', results);
                  console.log("Cron Data : " + Date());
              //console.log(results);
        });

      }catch(err){
        console.log("Code 1: " + err.message);
      } 
    });
  });
  req.end();
  console.log("Cron End  : " + Date());
  console.log("***************************************************");
}, null, true, "America/Los_Angeles");

It never logged any errors from my try catch blocks.

[StevenDStanton]

@semy I am actually just using two different methods.

Where it is not critical that my calls be exact to the second I am using javascripts setInterval.

It has proven to be surprising robust and accurate. Currently it runs my main loop which pushes out status updates to around 50 agents every 10 seconds.

For to the second precision I am using actual cron on my linux server. That is simple to set up with cron tab and cURL.

[semy]

@StevenDStanton What’s your replacement of cron? Need a quick solution that works… Thanks 😃