# `SmolBox.Store.Memory`
[🔗](https://github.com/hfiguera/smolbox/blob/v0.1.3/lib/smolbox/store/memory.ex#L1)

Explicitly ephemeral, bounded store for tests and local development.

The GenServer serializes transactions in one BEAM. Stopping it loses identities,
claims, reservations and cleanup work; worker machines may remain. Never use it
as a fallback for unavailable durable storage. Completed records are retained,
so the configured record/serialized-byte limits can eventually reject new work.
The byte limit bounds encoded record data, not total BEAM RSS or caller copies.

# `child_spec`

Returns a specification to start this module under a supervisor.

See `Supervisor`.

# `start_link`

```elixir
@spec start_link(keyword()) :: GenServer.on_start()
```

Start an ephemeral store, optionally registered with `:name`.

`:max_records` defaults to 256 (maximum 10,000); `:max_bytes` defaults to 64 MiB
(maximum 1 GiB). Both must be positive. The byte limit covers encoded records,
not total process memory. Use the PID or registered name as the store context:
`{SmolBox.Store.Memory, store}`. A runtime using it must set `mode: :ephemeral`.
Completed identities are retained and count toward these limits.

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*Consult [api-reference.md](api-reference.md) for complete listing*