From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-07-02T09:12:27+09:00
Subject: Re: 64-bit Ruby for OS X ?

On 2 Jul 2009, at 00:29, Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2009, at 14:28, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>> I personally won't use anything that isn't under x64.  No offense  
>> to people
>> who are scared about memory usage but I prefer to be able to  
>> address my
>> 12GB+ of Ram on each of my servers without needing to hack my  
>> Kernel for
>> anything more than security, and speed.  I've had no problems with  
>> the
>> memory the gentleman reported with memory consumption crawling on  
>> OSX, BSD
>> or Debian so perhaps it's just a bad compile in his behalf? Our  
>> Daemons that
>> monitor our main server would have caught a memory leak if it was  
>> happening
>> but they haven't yet and even on a check with the amount of hits we  
>> get, our
>> total memory usage for Ruby is only 1.5GB total for all 15  
>> Processes that
>> run Ruby.
>
> I don't understand what this is a response to from my instructions  
> about how to compile ruby for 64-bit.

I think we're supposed to be impressed by the 12+ GB of RAM, or the  
~100MB per process for the ruby processes or something like that and  
all rush out and recompile for 64 bit.

I'd be interested to know how those servers really benchmark compared  
to an x32 core with PAE and the same amount of RAM, but that's just  
little old contrarian me.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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