> 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. -- rick http://techno-weenie.net _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core