# cap
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[Docs](https://docs.rs/cap/0.1)
An allocator that can track and limit memory usage.
This crate provides a generic allocator that wraps another allocator, tracking memory usage and enabling limits to be set.
## Example
It can be used by declaring a static and marking it with the `#[global_allocator]` attribute:
```rust
use std::alloc;
use cap::Cap;
#[global_allocator]
static ALLOCATOR: Cap<alloc::System> = Cap::new(alloc::System, usize::max_value());
fn main() {
// Set the limit to 30MiB.
ALLOCATOR.set_limit(30 * 1024 * 1024).unwrap();
// ...
println!("Currently allocated: {}B", ALLOCATOR.allocated());
}
```
## License
Licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE.txt](LICENSE-APACHE.txt) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT.txt](LICENSE-MIT.txt) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.