Actually chrome has multiple processes running, i think its creating one
for every tab you have open


On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Alexey Guskov <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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