Re: Lua 5.2 garbage collector

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Shawn Fox <shawnkfox@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any chance of adding a way to set a memory cap?  This would be very useful
> for me and I'd think others who are building sandbox type environments would
> find it useful as well.  I'm using a custom memory allocator right now to
> cap memory usage, but it really ought to be part of the standard API, like
> lua_gc(L, LUA_GCMAXMEMORY, 67108864) or some such...

I agree this would be very nice. It's extremely difficult to do this
in plain Lua sandboxes. It'd be even better for use with the rings
library [1]. (That way the host doesn't have its memory limited.)

[1] http://keplerproject.github.com/rings/

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- Patrick Donnelly