Hi Ezra,

Thanks for the reply. I have to ask: what is then the advantage of
using Merb over Rails? From what I was reading online, since Merb is
modularized (e.g. use what you need), it is supposed to have a smaller
memory footprint than Rails. A Rails cluster (even though it shares no
memory) would be just as big as a Merb cluster.
Any way I can get that memory footprint down?
(From the speed point of view, I do see that Merb is quite faster than
Rails .)

Thanks,
Tiberiu Motoc

On Feb 24, 11:45 pm, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Mr_Tibs wrote:
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> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying to stress test a scalable file-upload merb app. When I
> > start the merb cluster, each merb worker process is about 1MB memory
> > (btw, I start it with "merb -c 9"). My merb cluster is behind Apache +
> > mod_proxy, so requests get distributed.
> > I have 6 different clients (same network, Linux&PC) and they
> > continuously upload 1MB file to the merb app. Almost immediately after
> > they start pounding the merb app, the merb worker processes go from
> > 1MB to 32MB of memory and they stay there.
> > Why is this happening? I'm only using authentication and file upload.
> > Are there memory leaks in any of these modules?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Tiberiu
>
> Mr Tibs-
>
>         What you observe is pretty normal for merb apps. Each worker process
> will use around 30Mb or so on average.  The reason they start at 2mb
> is that they are forks of the master, so they share memory. But ruby;s
> garbage collector is not so smart and once you start running requests
> through the workers they will bloat up to full size and no longer
> share memory.
>
> Cheers-
>
> Ezra Zygmuntowicz
> [email protected]
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