Ben Giddings
10/8/2003 6:58:00 PM
Mark Probert wrote:
> I had an interesting experience today.
> A user reported high memory usage of one of my
> Ruby scripts (it is threaded, running about 60 threads
> each with a telnet session).
>
> top showed that the script was sucking 831M!
>
> Is this usual?
Um, it kinda depends on your program.
Even if the script is super simple-looking, it might be doing something
like sucking a huge file into RAM. Unless you show us your script this
question is impossible to answer.
Ben