From: Chiyuan Zhang <pluskid@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T22:17:46+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby memory allocation

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Here's an useful article by _why:
http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theFullyUpturnedBin.html

Maybe you can modify the parameters in gc.c to achieve your goals.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Emanuele Ricci <maurice.enciel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I just discovered that ruby allocates memory in 8Mb chunks.
> Forgive my ignorance.
> Is there a way to change this behaviour? Since my app runs in an
> environment with very strict memory constraints, a memory spike of 8Mb
> can be lethal...
> I would change it to a lower figure.
> It doesn't matter if I have to patch my ruby source files in order to
> achieve this goal.
> Any clues?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Emanuele Ricci.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>


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