From: Neil Wilson <aldursys@...>
Date: 2007-02-04T17:55:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Using fork to conserve memory

I would just launch the relevant number of mongrel processes before
time and cluster them. I can't see the point in complicating matters
when memory is so cheap these days (Amazon EC2 launches give you
1.75Gb of RAM for 10 cents an hours).

NeilW

On Feb 3, 7:42 am, Daniel DeLorme <dan...@dan42.com> 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