Google Sheets Update uses too much memory

Questions
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Describe the problem/error/question

Hey !

I’m building this simple workflow to update a big google sheets, but the Google Sheets node seems to load all the data on update, which crash n8n even when working one line at a time.

For now I will increase my memory limit but I suppose this is not intended.

It also crashes when I use “Return first raw only”, I need to manually handle it with data ranges.

What is the error message (if any)?

FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

Please share your workflow

Share the output returned by the last node

Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: 1.102.3
  • Database (default: SQLite): postgres
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): main
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): docker
2

hey @AntoineDsh hope you are doing well,
these issues are addressed in documentation
causes: Memory-related errors | n8n Docs
solutions:Memory-related errors | n8n Docs

3

Hi Moosa thank you but it’s not relevant to my point I’ve already increased memory as mentionned. But the gsheet node is still sub-optimal by itself, we shouldn’t need to load the whole doc into memory to update a single raw

4

So problem is when you add record into Google sheets. It loads whole sheet instead of adding just that record?

5

Exactly, that’s a loss in memory and probably in execution time