Subj : sm: limiting memory usage?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Jens Thiele
Date : Thu Mar 31 2005 01:15 pm

Hi,

I am currently trying to fix the docu I am writing about embedding
SpiderMonkey. Especially the section about limiting memory usage.

It seems there is no way to effectiely limit memory usage in SM?

perhaps via the branch callback function and cx->runtime->gcMallocBytes?

Earlier I thought the maxbytes argument to JS_NewRuntime (in combination
with stackChunkSize and JS_NewContext) will do but it doesn't.

Example:
x="x";while(1)x+=x

(btw: mozilla 1.7.5 is affected, too - did not have the time to test it
with newer versions / firefox
test-case: http://egachine.berlios.de/mozoutofmem/
)

Jens

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