On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:35, mgarriss wrote:
> David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> 
> > I'm seeing memory consumption in the area of 30-35mb per Apache 
> > process running mod_ruby with a fairly smallish web-app. I appreciate 
> > that it's hard to generalize about this stuff, but is that normal? Is 
> > there any obvious steps I can take to reduce the footprint? The server 
> > in question is equipped with 256mb RAM, so it doesn't take more than 
> > eight Apache instances to bring it to its knees.
> >
> > / David
> 
> 
> I get about 8-10mb per process.  I took no special steps.  Anything 
> unusual about your setup?  It doesn't take a lot of lines of code to use 
> a lot of ram.  Maybe check over what you are doing in the code... 

Also, what other modules are you loading?  Are there some that you can
remove?

Yours,

Tom