From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T23:48:19+09:00
Subject: Re: allocate particular amount of memory to a ruby thread ?

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 13:46, Pokkai Dokkai <bad_good_lion@yahoo.com> wrote:
> how to allocate particular amount of memory to a ruby thread or to a
> ruby script?
>
> for example suppose if i want to start a thread it should take 1 MB
> memory only
>
> Thread.start(memory=1024*1024*1024) do |t|
>
> # some stuff here
> end
>
> is there anyway to do like this ?

AFAIK, the memory is shared among threads, no matter whether system or ruby's.
The memory for the whole ruby process/script is allocated on demand,
with some initial amount.
This amount and growing ratio is compiled-in (at least for 1.8).