I'm trying to figure out a possible memory leak problem I have in my application.
I've tested both with mongrel and webrick and the problem remains. So I think it's not a mongrel problem, but I'm posting here to see if anybody can help me. The RAILS application is quite simple, no special plugins ( no RMagick that has the memory problem ), it's a query and the data is outputted via rxml template, so there is the xml Builder in the template. Actually I'm doing quite a lot of Ruby in the template, and the output file can get VERY big ( depends on the input data ). The maximum is an output file of 35MB. When somebody does this very heavy search the Mongrel ( or webrick ) process reaches 400MB and the memory is never ever freed again... My application has 6 mongrels and if all the mongrel end up with very big queries I need to restart everything, having eaten up all the 2GB of RAM my box has. I tested for memory leaks with Scott Laird module, but I didn't find anything. Is it a problem of the RAILS/Ruby CG? or is there something I'm missing ? My only hint is the xml Builder RAILS functions, I plan to try to use a normal RHTML to see if something changes, I know it's not a very neat solution ( and BTW it is 2 to 3 times faster on very big XML files, from some benchmarks I've done )... but I'm desperate! Thanks Massimo _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
