thanks for the replies. i'm on dreamhost running passenger. their support is horrible, it takes 48 hours to get an e-mail response. anyway, i'm just looking to patch up my memory use in the app for the time being, and i was wondering how i go about decreasing the memory footprint by either optimizing code or removing unnecessary or unused gems or plugins. so the two generic questions are :
1) how do you/can you detect and removed unused gems or modules? 2) what kinds of things make memory bloat? can you give me a push in the right direction based on experience? do i start in my controllers or models, etc.? i have no experience whatsoever in assessing where memory is used in a rails app and would appreciate any common patterns of opportunity for mem reduction. thanks a lot. dino On Feb 15, 11:08 am, Roderick van Domburg <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > dino d. wrote: > > My app has reached the memory limit allotted by my host. Can someone > > tell me how I go about reducing the memory footprint? Does rails load > > every single gem it finds, and can I somehow throw away the ones I > > don't need? Any other advice or suggestions for strategies or tools > > to diagnose where memory is being used would be appreciated. > > The real question is: what's hogging up memory? Use theory of > constraints: find the parts of your application that use the most > memory, optimize it, and move on to the next battle. > > You should profile and benchmark your application to find out. There's > lots of tools you could use for that, including railsbench and the > NewRelic/FineRuns/Scout facilities. > > Depending on the time you have on your hands it might be cheaper to up > the memory. RAM's cheap and developer time typically isn't. > > -- > Roderick van Domburghttp://www.nedforce.com > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
