All versions from 12.0.0 through 13.9.0: experimental-report enabled by default and report files created regardless of command line parameters.

[CalebCarroll]

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Subsystem: if known, please specify affected core module name
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• Version:v12.16.1
• Platform:Linux raspberrypi 4.19.50-v7+ Status of timers enroll/unenroll/active #896 SMP Thu Jun 20 16:11:44 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
• Subsystem:

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Cause out of memory condition

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

100%

What is the expected behavior?

node should not create any report files

What do you see instead?

node creates a report file regardless of any command line settings

Additional information

No command line options:
node /var/www/html2/test.js

FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

Writing Node.js report to file: report.20200221.165442.10713.0.001.json
Node.js report completed
Aborted

"header": {
"reportVersion": 1,
"event": "Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory",
"trigger": "FatalError",
"filename": "report.20200221.165442.10713.0.001.json",
"dumpEventTime": "2020-02-21T16:54:42Z",
"dumpEventTimeStamp": "1582304082557",
"processId": 10713,
"cwd": "/var/active/html2",
"commandLine": [
"node",
"/var/www/html2/test.js"
],
"nodejsVersion": "v12.16.1",
"glibcVersionRuntime": "2.28",
"glibcVersionCompiler": "2.24",
"wordSize": 32,
"arch": "arm",
"platform": "linux",
"componentVersions": {
"node": "12.16.1",
"v8": "7.8.279.23-node.31",
"uv": "1.34.0",
"zlib": "1.2.11",
"brotli": "1.0.7",
"ares": "1.15.0",
"modules": "72",
"nghttp2": "1.40.0",
"napi": "5",
"llhttp": "2.0.4",
"http_parser": "2.9.3",
"openssl": "1.1.1d",
"cldr": "35.1",
"icu": "64.2",
"tz": "2019c",
"unicode": "12.1"
},
"release": {
"name": "node",
"lts": "Erbium",
"headersUrl": "https://nodejs.org/download/release/v12.16.1/node-v12.16.1-headers.tar.gz",
"sourceUrl": "https://nodejs.org/download/release/v12.16.1/node-v12.16.1.tar.gz"
},
"osName": "Linux",
"osRelease": "4.19.50-v7+",
"osVersion": "#896 SMP Thu Jun 20 16:11:44 BST 2019",
"osMachine": "armv7l",
.
.
.

Attempt to work-around issue by setting report file name to /dev/null :
node --experimental-report --report-on-fatalerror --report-filename=/dev/null /var/www/html2/test.js

FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

Writing Node.js report to file: report.20200221.165821.14530.0.001.json
Node.js report completed
Aborted

"header": {
"reportVersion": 1,
"event": "Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory",
"trigger": "FatalError",
"filename": "report.20200221.165821.14530.0.001.json",
"dumpEventTime": "2020-02-21T16:58:21Z",
"dumpEventTimeStamp": "1582304301387",
"processId": 14530,
"cwd": "/var/active/html2",
"commandLine": [
"node",
"--experimental-report",
"--report-on-fatalerror",
"--report-filename=/dev/null",
"/var/www/html2/test.js"
],

[richardlau]

This is a duplicate of #31576.