diff --git a/.github/workflows/npm-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/npm-publish.yml
index 8f0b0efa..faa94136 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/npm-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/npm-publish.yml
@@ -80,17 +80,25 @@ jobs:
           - arch: x86_64
             runner: ubuntu-latest
           - arch: aarch64
-            runner: buildjet-8vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm
+            # For successful fat LTO builds, we need a large runner to avoid OOM errors.
+            runner: buildjet-16vcpu-ubuntu-2204-arm
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
       # Buildjet aarch64 runners have only 1.5 GB RAM per core, vs 3.5 GB per core for
-      # x86_64 runners. Cargo defaults to spawn a job per core, but needs a lot
-      # of memory per job. Thus for ARM we need to reduce the number of jobs
-      # to avoid OOM errors when building.
+      # x86_64 runners. To avoid OOM errors on ARM, we create a swap file.
       - name: Configure aarch64 build
         if: ${{ matrix.config.arch == 'aarch64' }}
-        run: echo "CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=4" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+        run: |
+          free -h
+          sudo fallocate -l 16G /swapfile
+          sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
+          sudo mkswap /swapfile
+          sudo swapon /swapfile
+          echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >> sudo /etc/fstab
+          # print info
+          swapon --show
+          free -h
       - name: Build Linux Artifacts
         run: |
           bash ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh ${{ matrix.config.arch }}
diff --git a/ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh b/ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh
index 70b06ad4..22b9073d 100755
--- a/ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh
+++ b/ci/build_linux_artifacts.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ docker build \
     .
 popd
 
+# We turn on memory swap to avoid OOM killer
 docker run \
     -v $(pwd):/io -w /io \
+    --memory-swap=-1 \
     lancedb-node-manylinux \
     bash ci/manylinux_node/build.sh $ARCH
diff --git a/nodejs/vectordb/native.d.ts b/nodejs/vectordb/native.d.ts
index 5c65d2e9..1fc8c9b2 100644
--- a/nodejs/vectordb/native.d.ts
+++ b/nodejs/vectordb/native.d.ts
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export class Table {
   /** Return Schema as empty Arrow IPC file. */
   schema(): Buffer
   add(buf: Buffer): Promise<void>
-  countRows(filter?: string): Promise<bigint>
+  countRows(filter?: string | undefined | null): Promise<bigint>
   delete(predicate: string): Promise<void>
   createIndex(): IndexBuilder
   query(): Query