From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-09-10T01:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory consumption of Ruby/mod_ruby combo on Apache

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 23:35:58 +0900
mgarriss <mgarriss@earthlink.net> wrote:

> David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> 
> > I'm seeing memory consumption in the area of 30-35mb per Apache 
> > process running mod_ruby with a fairly smallish web-app. I appreciate 
> > that it's hard to generalize about this stuff, but is that normal? Is 
> > there any obvious steps I can take to reduce the footprint? The server 
> > in question is equipped with 256mb RAM, so it doesn't take more than 
> > eight Apache instances to bring it to its knees.
> >
> > / David
> 
> 
> I get about 8-10mb per process.  I took no special steps.  Anything 
> unusual about your setup?  It doesn't take a lot of lines of code to use 
> a lot of ram.  Maybe check over what you are doing in the code... 
> 

These are both because you're probably running fairly simple scripts and
the GC isn't getting called a whole lot.

Put GC.start at the bottom of your scripts and I bet your memory
consumption will be fairly normal again. ;-)

Of course, this costs a bit of time, but users may not notice since the
outpt has already been sent.

-- 
Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com>

"And I'm 10,000 feet up in the air. Dang it." - 8BT