> The spinner process is running all the time, and because it has loaded
> and initialized the whole Rails environment (boot.rb etc.) it uses a lot
> of RAM. The same goes for the spawner process. It is started every
> #{interval} seconds, and because it loads the Rails environment every
> time - this can put a considerable load on a small server. IMO neither
> spinner nor spawner do really need the Rails environment, all they do is
> to call external scripts.

I deploy apps on a shared hosting server without the spinner, and
everything is fine.  I just use the facilities provided by Lighttpd.

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rick
http://techno-weenie.net
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