-- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? On Jul 1, 2009, at 14:28 , Jordon Bedwell wrote: > I personally won't use anything that isn't under x64. No offense to > people > who are scared about memory usage but I prefer to be able to address > my > 12GB+ of Ram on each of my servers without needing to hack my Kernel > for > anything more than security, and speed. I've had no problems with the > memory the gentleman reported with memory consumption crawling on > OSX, BSD > or Debian so perhaps it's just a bad compile in his behalf? Our > Daemons that > monitor our main server would have caught a memory leak if it was > happening > but they haven't yet and even on a check with the amount of hits we > get, our > total memory usage for Ruby is only 1.5GB total for all 15 Processes > that > run Ruby. such sophistication and yet you still top-post...