Script/Runner

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I have a production site that has a couple of batch jobs, I have used script/runner and cron to run these jobs. This works ok for jobs that only run once overnight during off peak.

I am expiring sessions older than 30 mins every 15 mins using script/runner, but I'm concerned about the hit of script/runner loading up the whole rails environment, specifically since I only have a 256MB slice, at such regular intervals.

What is a more efficient way of clearing down these sessions (using AR store btw).

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

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Have you checked what is consuming the memory? The environment should take about 60mb (not 100% about that). creating objects from find(:all, ....) queries. Can you change the ActiveRecord find into raw sql queries and compare results? I remember case with my code - memory usage jumped from 600mb do 180mb after changing find(:all, ...) into sql.

The other thing is the script/runner - I don't know if it will make any difference but you could try with rake task's instead of script/ runner.

cheers