appium: Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

The problem

Seeing this error a lot in the latest Appium (1.18.0):

FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.18.0
• Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): 1.17.1
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Ubuntu 18.04
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 10.22.0
• Npm or Yarn package manager: npm 6.14.6
• Mobile platform/version under test: android
• Real device or emulator/simulator: real
• Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: cli

Details

Here is one example that includes a call stack. More examples can be found in the log file linked to below.

<--- Last few GCs --->

[7337:0x33518d0] 69164275 ms: Mark-sweep 1340.9 (1435.6) -> 1333.5 (1436.1) MB, 1932.9 / 0.1 ms  (average mu = 0.296, current mu = 0.286) allocation failure scavenge might not succeed
[7337:0x33518d0] 69167285 ms: Mark-sweep 1341.1 (1436.1) -> 1333.7 (1436.1) MB, 1950.5 / 0.1 ms  (average mu = 0.326, current mu = 0.352) allocation failure scavenge might not succeed


<--- JS stacktrace --->

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

    0: ExitFrame [pc: 0x3cd0ac3dbe1d]
    1: StubFrame [pc: 0x3cd0ac3e0c75]
Security context: 0x0bc74961e6c1 <JSObject>
    2: getResponseHeader [0x29e852f299f9] [/home/deployer/node_modules/appium/node_modules/morgan/index.js:~350] [pc=0x3cd0b0136729](this=0x29e852f2b659 <JSFunction morgan (sfi = 0x3eeb3f04b91)>,req=0x218092090621 <IncomingMessage map = 0x3ed99199fe19>,res=0x218092090911 <ServerResponse map = 0x3ed99198d991>,field=0x2c35...

FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
 1: 0x8fb090 node::Abort() [node]
 2: 0x8fb0dc  [node]
 3: 0xb033ae v8::Utils::ReportOOMFailure(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, bool) [node]
 4: 0xb035e4 v8::internal::V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, bool) [node]
 5: 0xef7642  [node]
 6: 0xef7748 v8::internal::Heap::CheckIneffectiveMarkCompact(unsigned long, double) [node]
 7: 0xf03822 v8::internal::Heap::PerformGarbageCollection(v8::internal::GarbageCollector, v8::GCCallbackFlags) [node]
 8: 0xf04154 v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbage(v8::internal::AllocationSpace, v8::internal::GarbageCollectionReason, v8::GCCallbackFlags) [node]
 9: 0xf06dc1 v8::internal::Heap::AllocateRawWithRetryOrFail(int, v8::internal::AllocationSpace, v8::internal::AllocationAlignment) [node]
10: 0xed0244 v8::internal::Factory::NewFillerObject(int, bool, v8::internal::AllocationSpace) [node]
11: 0x117031e v8::internal::Runtime_AllocateInNewSpace(int, v8::internal::Object**, v8::internal::Isolate*) [node]
12: 0x3cd0ac3dbe1d
[ADB] Cannot sort build-tools folders ["27.0.1","debian"] by semantic version names.
[ADB] Falling back to sorting by modification date. Original error: Invalid Version: debian

Link to Appium logs

https://gist.github.com/sshock/afa15b1d2b32944e6aee227475ce8f60