Mark Probert wrote:
> I had an interesting experience today.
> A user reported high memory usage of one of my
> Ruby scripts (it is threaded, running about 60 threads
> each with a telnet session).
> 
> top showed that the script was sucking 831M!
> 
> Is this usual?

Um, it kinda depends on your program.

Even if the script is super simple-looking, it might be doing something 
like sucking a huge file into RAM.  Unless you show us your script this 
question is impossible to answer.

Ben