I've started to build an nginx module to process server-side ecmascript (javascript) by embedding the spidermonkey engine. I've got a (very) rough proof of concept hacked together just now, but after about 30-50 requests the I can't allocate enough memory to build the spidermonkey runtime.

I'm new to C and just skim-read the white book to get this far so I expect I am just making naive C mistakes.

What I couldn't understand is that the same jsapi code outside of the nginx module never seemed to have the allocation issues. And if it was a memory allocation issue... wouldn't my worker processes rise above 2MB?

Sorry for the vague message, but if someone could give me a nudge in the right direction of what might be happening so I can get back to learning it would be much appreciated!

here's my example so far:

http://github.com/chrisfarms/nginx_ecmascript_module/blob/0d970a33771c4cdbec2293c5c5db9f34191e7ffa/ngx_http_ecmascript_module.c