memoryLimit / maxWorkers for nx serve

• I am running the latest version
• I checked the documentation (nx.dev) and found no answer
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• I’m reporting the issue to the correct repository (not related to React, Angular or any dependency)

Expected Behavior

memoryLimit and maxWorkers options are available for nx serve

Current Behavior

Using --memoryLimit flag causes an error like this:

Schema validation failed with the following errors:
  Data path "" should NOT have additional properties(maxWorkers).

Steps to Reproduce

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1. Run nx serve --maxWorkers=1

Context

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@nrwl/angular : Not Found @nrwl/cli : 9.2.2 @nrwl/cypress : Not Found @nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : 9.1.2 @nrwl/express : Not Found @nrwl/jest : 9.2.2 @nrwl/linter : 9.2.1 @nrwl/nest : 9.2.2 @nrwl/next : Not Found @nrwl/node : 9.2.1 @nrwl/react : Not Found @nrwl/schematics : Not Found @nrwl/tao : 9.2.2 @nrwl/web : Not Found @nrwl/workspace : 9.2.2 typescript : 3.8.3

Ref #2716: It would be great to have those flags not only work for building but also serving an application. My development machine only has so much RAM available and I’m constantly hitting 95-99% RAM usage while developing inside WSL 2. Plus, I really don’t need 6 workers@2GB, it’s too much.

Maybe it’s a usage problem and this is possible, if so, where can I find this in the documentation?

[yeomann]

thanks man @alexesca i am using nx with Nest project, added in workspace.json for the main “architect.build.options” and it worked. nice trick

edit: i added memoryLimit as well, seems to be working

[yeomann]

is there any update? My laptop is 16gb but it is DIEing very badly