diff --git a/buildutils/package.json b/buildutils/package.json
index 9bbb845b63cb..9ce6b35fab6d 100644
--- a/buildutils/package.json
+++ b/buildutils/package.json
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
   "main": "lib/index.js",
   "types": "lib/index.d.ts",
   "bin": {
-    "ensure-max-old-space": "./lib/ensure-max-old-space.js",
     "get-dependency": "./lib/get-dependency.js",
     "remove-dependency": "./lib/remove-dependency.js",
     "update-dependency": "./lib/update-dependency.js",
@@ -55,8 +54,7 @@
     "semver": "^6.3.0",
     "sort-package-json": "~1.31.0",
     "typescript": "~3.7.3",
-    "webpack": "^4.41.2",
-    "which": "^2.0.2"
+    "webpack": "^4.41.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/fs-extra": "^8.0.1",
diff --git a/buildutils/src/ensure-max-old-space.ts b/buildutils/src/ensure-max-old-space.ts
deleted file mode 100755
index d8c1429f1335..000000000000
--- a/buildutils/src/ensure-max-old-space.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env node
-/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-| Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
-| Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
-
-/**
- * This file is a temporary workaround to ensure that we can set
- * max_old_space by default but allow others to override it.
- *
- * When node 10 support is dropped, we can remove this file as node 12
- * should just grow as required.
- *
- * See: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/7175
- *
- * @example
- * node ensure-max-old-space.js real-cli.js arg1 arg2
- */
-import { execFileSync } from 'child_process';
-import * as which from 'which';
-
-const MAX_OLD_SPACE = '--max_old_space_size=4096';
-
-if (!process.env.NODE_OPTIONS) {
-  process.env.NODE_OPTIONS = MAX_OLD_SPACE;
-} else if (!/--max[_\-]old[_\-]space[_\-]size/.test(process.env.NODE_OPTIONS)) {
-  process.env.NODE_OPTIONS += ` ${MAX_OLD_SPACE}`;
-}
-
-const program = which.sync(process.argv[2]);
-const args = process.argv.slice(3);
-execFileSync(program, args, { env: process.env, stdio: 'inherit' });
diff --git a/dev_mode/package.json b/dev_mode/package.json
index c1b9200eb40f..0d58eb8a7078 100644
--- a/dev_mode/package.json
+++ b/dev_mode/package.json
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
     "build": "webpack",
     "build:dev": "jlpm run build",
     "build:dev:minimize": "jlpm run build:dev",
-    "build:prod": "ensure-max-old-space webpack --config webpack.prod.config.js",
-    "build:prod:minimize": "ensure-max-old-space webpack --config webpack.prod.minimize.config.js",
-    "build:prod:release": "ensure-max-old-space webpack --config webpack.prod.release.config.js",
-    "build:prod:stats": "ensure-max-old-space webpack --profile --config webpack.prod.minimize.config.js --json > stats.json",
+    "build:prod": "webpack --config webpack.prod.config.js",
+    "build:prod:minimize": "webpack --config webpack.prod.minimize.config.js",
+    "build:prod:release": "webpack --config webpack.prod.release.config.js",
+    "build:prod:stats": "webpack --profile --config webpack.prod.minimize.config.js --json > stats.json",
     "build:stats": "webpack --profile --json > stats.json",
     "clean": "rimraf build",
     "prepublishOnly": "npm run build",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 8f8d53ef15ed..789161f5bc90 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -16126,7 +16126,7 @@ which@1.3.1, which@^1.1.1, which@^1.2.1, which@^1.2.14, which@^1.2.9, which@^1.3
   dependencies:
     isexe "^2.0.0"
 
-which@^2.0.1, which@^2.0.2:
+which@^2.0.1:
   version "2.0.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/which/-/which-2.0.2.tgz#7c6a8dd0a636a0327e10b59c9286eee93f3f51b1"
   integrity sha512-BLI3Tl1TW3Pvl70l3yq3Y64i+awpwXqsGBYWkkqMtnbXgrMD+yj7rhW0kuEDxzJaYXGjEW5ogapKNMEKNMjibA==