How to limit Phusion Passenger memory usage?

Question

Is there a way to limit the amount of memory Phusion Passenger uses when serving up your app?

My host comes by and kills the process after I get a bunch of traffic and

Answer 1

As others pointed out, the Enterprise version of passenger has this feature.

For the free version, check out this blog post: http://dev.mensfeld.pl/2012/08/simple-rubyrails-passenger-memory-consumption-limit-monitoring/