thin server processes slowly growing in RAM size

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When I initially start up my server I have two thin processes running that are only about 200M in size. They slowly creep up a few megs an hour until now a week later they are at 400M and 300M respectively.

I realize that my site (http://wlodb.com) has some intensive pages that take a couple seconds to render (most notably Compounds - Wonderland Online Database ) but I'm wondering if this is normal? I usually get about 500,000 page hits a month.

Should I have a cronjob to restart my server processes once a week or should I just work on implementing some server side caching which should resolve the issue?

thanks!

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i guess nobody has as many problems as me. in general, do thin server processes normally keep growing and growing or do they cap out in size?

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Scott Kulik wrote:

i guess nobody has as many problems as me. in general, do thin server processes normally keep growing and growing or do they cap out in size?

Mine don't grow in size.. of course, mine arn't 200mb.

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I would see if there are ways for you to implement caching ... but it also seems like there is maybe a memory leak within your code causing some problems. I'm not expert, but those are my thoughts.

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Bobnation wrote:

I would see if there are ways for you to implement caching ... but it also seems like there is maybe a memory leak within your code causing some problems. I'm not expert, but those are my thoughts.

On Dec 9, 9:43�am, Scott Kulik <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>

thanks for the replies. yea, i think there may be a memory leak. what do you think is the best way to narrow it down to a specific page?