By the way, i believe the way google chrome deals with multiple pages and 
browser addons is very similar to what i'm trying to achieve: isolated js 
vm instances inside a single process. If anyone knows chrome internals, 
please correct me. 

суббота, 13 октября 2012 г., 13:29:17 UTC+4 пользователь Alexey Guskov 
написал:
>
> Hello everybody. I'm a huge fan of node.js and ve're actively using it in 
> our project for creating various services.
>
> Recently we've faced a problem of significant ram overhead required to run 
> each node.js instance (about 40Mb). This is an issue since we are running a 
> number of different node.js services on one machine, and the memory is 
> limited.
>
> So what we trying to use is run multiple services in single node.js 
> process using vm.runInNewContext(), but compared this approach is missing 
> some functionality:
>
> 1) We cannot monitor amount of memory allocated by each subprocess.
> 2) We cannot cancel all setTimeouts and process.nextTicks for given 
> process to effectively stop its execution.
> 3) We cannot get a list of open sockets and file descriptors for given 
> process.
>
> With this functionality we could use node.js similar to erlang - run a 
> number of processes inside a single vm - and use some erlang features (like 
> 'let it fail') that would certanly lead us to world domination ;)
>
> So, is there any projects targeted to solve similar problem?
>

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