Re: Garbage collection best practices

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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 19:43, Robert G. Jakabosky
<bobby@sharedrealm.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I did some load tests on a lua program (a *C* program that uses
>> different Lua VMs, each on its own thread) and I've seen memory
>> increasing to around 1Gb (possibly my Window's memory limit or
>> something), and then falling quickly to 64Mb or so.
>>
>> I've been looking at the LuaFAQ but I couldn't find an appropriate
>> answer, so here I go:
>>
>>
>> a) Can I limit the max memory a Lua VM uses? How?
>
> I would recommend using the Emergency GC [1] patch I made for Lua 5.1.x
> It allows you to set a max memory limit on each lua state.
>
> 1. http://lua-users.org/wiki/EmergencyGarbageCollector
>
> --
> Robert G. Jakabosky
>
>

Does 5.2 also let you set a memory limit?

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