It was implemented, then removed.  The instability and added complexity was 
determined to be not worth it at the time.

Ted

On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Alexey G <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thats' right, but it's doesn't always create a separate process, sometimes 
> multiple tabs run in single process (when they're from same domain and from 
> same origin). Besides, chrome addons certanly live in same process, but are 
> somehow isolated from each other and js in pages. I suppose they're created 
> by single vm, memory overhead would be significant otherwise.
> 
> Anyway, it must be possible to create multiple vm's in v8 and isolates 
> feature seems to be what i'm looking for. It's not implemented, however, and 
> i don't know if it will be. So for now i'll take a look on what can be done 
> with domains.
> 
> 2012/10/16 Michal Kruk <[email protected]>
> 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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