[OSM-dev] Eating all available ram on www
Nick Hill
nick at nickhill.co.uk
Wed May 9 01:11:28 BST 2007
Hi All
Looks like we have a teething problem on the rails port where the RAM footprint
grows over time, eventually eating all, then the process closes.
We had a similar issue with the previous API which was covered over by setting
apache to restart the process every 25 requests.
I guess it is an issue of the garbage collector not freeing memory from unused
objects. Perhaps there is a form of referencing such that the GC doesn't know
the object is no longer used so doesn't 'know' to free the memory, in which
case, some explicit freeing may be needed.
A patch for the rails port or a knowledgeable specific explanation why Ruby/API
memory footprint keeps growing would help a lot.
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