From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-02-04T12:55:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Using fork to conserve memory

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> you realize that this is __exactly__ what running rails, or any cgi, under
> fastcgi does right?

No, fastcgi creates a bunch of worker processes and loads the full rails 
environment in EACH of them. That means a lot of memory (30+ MB for each 
process) and a long initialization time (2+ seconds for each process).

What I'm talking about is loading the large environment once and THEN forking 
off worker processes that don't need to go through the expensive initialization 
sequence. It seems like an obvious idea and rails is not the only framework with 
a large footprint, so *someone* must have done something like this already.

Daniel