It's not possible, sorry. A single dyno is limited to 512 MB of RAM (see the Acceptable Use Policy: http://policy.heroku.com/aup). And cranking up the dynos won't help, because their RAM won't pool (and Heroku goes out of its way to split your dynos across different machines anyway).
On Friday, April 20, 2012 7:46:40 AM UTC-7, Chris wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm slightly confused as to whether it is possible to run an > application on Heroku that requires around 3GB on the heap. This does > seem a lot, but it's not a memory leak - it is just that it is > necessary to have around 3,000,000 objects in memory at a certain time > (yes, I will be reviewing just how 'necessary' it is, and what > alternatives there are, but for now lets say it's necessary). > > So, this long running task would be handled by a Worker Dyno, rather > than a Web Dyno? Are the limitations/capabilities of the Worker Dynos > the same as the Web Dynos? And by cranking up the number of Dynos, can > I run my application that will require say 3GB for one process, or is > this just not possible? > > Sorry for the noob questions ... but I am a noob, and I've seen > conflicting information, so want to get the facts straight. > > Cheers, > > Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en
