On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Yohanes Santoso wrote:

> I don't favour the long-running process model for server. I prefer to
> fork() for each request. So I'm rarely bothered by whatever ruby's GC
> quirknesses that I may have triggered. I understand that this approach
> is not trendy anymore and RoR does not support this model, but I'm
> just throwing it out in the open for an alternative work-around where
> possible.
>

that's quite interesting because, while i'm not the memory expert you  
are, i've settled on exactly that model for the many many server  
process i've written for 24x7 systems: the robustness simply cannot  
be beaten.

kind regards.

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