Qlik Alerting Issue with sync of Users when user list is large due to Node.js 10 limitation

Qlik Alerting may time out syncing users and/or user attributes from Qlik Sense Repository Service (QRS) if the request returns a very large set of data.

See an example trace when the issue occurs: 

 qlik-connector log: FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory 1: 00007FF7AAAD832A v8::internal::GCIdleTimeHandler::GCIdleTimeHandler+4506 2: 00007FF7AAAB2DB6 node::MakeCallback+4534 3: 00007FF7AAAB3730 node_module_register+2032 4: 00007FF7AADCC14E v8::internal::FatalProcessOutOfMemory+846 5: 00007FF7AADCC07F v8::internal::FatalProcessOutOfMemory+639 6: 00007FF7AAFB2874 v8::internal::Heap::MaxHeapGrowingFactor+9620 7: 00007FF7AAFB0D3B v8::internal::Heap::MaxHeapGrowingFactor+2651 8: 00007FF7AB0DAB9B v8::internal::Factory::AllocateRawWithImmortalMap+59 9: 00007FF7AB0DD64D v8::internal::Factory::NewRawTwoByteString+77 10: 00007FF7AAE28688 v8::internal::Smi::SmiPrint+536 11: 00007FF7AADBF75B v8::internal::StringHasher::UpdateIndex+219 12: 00007FF7AADE4B76 v8::String::Utf8Length+22 13: 00007FF7AAA9BFBC node::Buffer::New+4332 14: 00007FF7AAFDEC62 std::vector<v8::internal::compiler::MoveOperands * __ptr64,v8::internal::ZoneAllocator<v8::internal::compiler::MoveOperands * __ptr64> >::_Umove+79442 15: 00007FF7AAFE00ED std::vector<v8::internal::compiler::MoveOperands * __ptr64,v8::internal::ZoneAllocator<v8::internal::compiler::MoveOperands * __ptr64> >::_Umove+84701 16: 00007FF7AAFDF146 std::vector<v8::internal::compiler::MoveOperands * __ptr64,v8::internal::ZoneAllocator<v8::internal::compiler::MoveOperands * __ptr64> >::_Umove+80694 17: 00007FF7AAFDF02B std::vector<v8::internal::compiler::MoveOperands * __ptr64,v8::internal::ZoneAllocator<v8::internal::compiler::MoveOperands * __ptr64> >::_Umove+80411 18: 000000A17C95C5C1
 

Environment:

• Qlik Alerting, April 2020