From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-04T00:52:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Using fork to conserve memory

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Daniel DeLorme wrote:

> Lately I've been bothered by the large start-up time and memory consumption 
> of rails (although this could apply to any large framework). The solution I 
> have in mind is to load rails in one master process (slow, high memory) and 
> then fork child processes (fast, most mem shared with parent) to be used by 
> apache. Are there any projects out there that do something like this? Or am I 
> gonna have to make it myself?
>
> Daniel

you may also be interested in this work i did some time ago

   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/acgi/
   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/acgi/acgi-0.1.0/README

quite similar in spirit.


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