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David N. Welton
David N. Welton

Reputation: 1865

Large objects lead to bloated rails - how can I eliminate them

I have some code that both loads largish objects (1-10 mb, let's say) and then sends them out to the browser. Naturally, it can also receive them from users and write them to disk.

I understand that that's going to take up some memory but the problem is that it keeps that memory around, and I am getting processes ballooning to something like a gig, which is absurd.

 xxxx    3449  3.0 29.9 639156 620304 ?       R    20:22   0:23 Rack: /var/www/xxxxxx.com/xxxxxxx

This one has only been around for a few minutes! Ouch!

Any ideas how to keep the size down? This is Rails 3, and the latest passenger. ActiveRecord is used for DB access.

Is there a way I can make Rails free up that space after each request?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 105

Answers (1)

arnep
arnep

Reputation: 6241

What kind of objects are this?

If it are files from harddisk and you are running Apache you can use mod_xsendfile for Apache2/Apache2.2 to avoid your program to touch these files at all.

Upvotes: 1

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