We have some pretty large builds at Hudl, and we've been seeing npm install fail with ECONNRESET errors. We spent a lot of time debugging the issue and are fairly confident the failures were due to npm hitting the upper limit of memory within node and being terminated prematurely.

We changed our npm.cmd file to set --max-old-space-size to 4gb when starting npm, and this fixed our issue, but we're wondering if there is a better way to set this parameter when running npm?