Hi, I've been testing unicorn as a replacement for passenger in my company's Rails apps, and generally am very much liking it, and will probably go through with the switch (our deployment times are killing us). I've been running tests on with jmeter against a demo EC2 m1.xlarge running Ubuntu 9.10 (yes, we know it's out od date), with 15GB RAM, 4x2GHz CPU.
The server is behaving fine, with most of the unicorn workers sitting at about 280MB resident memory, comparable to passenger's workers. But I've been testing how many workers to run with, and I've noticed that once I get above three workers, a couple of them get ballooning virtual memory, jumping up to a little over 2GB. I initially thought that the server was overloaded and swapping, but swap usage is still 0, and I get this behavior at over 50% free memory. It doesn't seem to be causing performance problems, but I was wondering if anyone else has observed this or similar behavior? I'm trying to decide if it's normal or an item for concern. -ben _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
