I forgot to put a disclaimer: it is not the most accurate experiment.
I didn't take into account network traffic, I/O bound-ness, etc. I
wanted to get an idea where Merb stands VS Rails.

On Feb 27, 10:42 am, Mr_Tibs <[email protected]> wrote:
> If anyone cares, here's the results of my little experiment.
>
> setup:
> - application: authentication (RESTful authentication plugin on Rails
> VS auth-core on Merb) and file uploads (attachment_fu on Rails VS
> basic file uploads on Merb)
> - server running on my machine (2.13GHz Pentium M, 2.0 GB, Ubuntu
> Linux)
> - clients running on: localhost, 2 other Linux machines, 3 other PC
> machines (total 6 clients all running on the local network)
> - all clients start approximately at the same time and upload files
> (64KB or 1MB) to the server application
> - mongrel runs behind Apache with mod_proxy
>
> --average client upload time in seconds--
> setup           64KB    1MB
> 1 mongrel Rails 2.20    3.24
> 3 mongrel Rails 0.70    1.96
> 1 mongrel Merb  1.85    2.23
> 3 mongrel Merb  0.15    0.15
> 9 mongrel Merb  0.18    0.18
>
> Tiberiu
>
> On Feb 23, 3:43 pm, Mr_Tibs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying to stress test a scalable file-upload merb app. When I
> > start the merb cluster, each merb worker process is about 1MB memory
> > (btw, I start it with "merb -c 9"). My merb cluster is behind Apache +
> > mod_proxy, so requests get distributed.
> > I have 6 different clients (same network, Linux&PC) and they
> > continuously upload 1MB file to the merb app. Almost immediately after
> > they start pounding the merb app, the merb worker processes go from
> > 1MB to 32MB of memory and they stay there.
> > Why is this happening? I'm only using authentication and file upload.
> > Are there memory leaks in any of these modules?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Tiberiu
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