Re: Strange memory behavior with rails - caching in connection?

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Alex<alex@liivid.com> wrote:
> I am using Postgres with Rails.  Each rails application "thread" is
> actually a separate process (mongrel) with it's own connection.
>
> Normally, the db connection processes (?) look something like this in
> top:
>
> 15772 postgres  15   0  229m  13m  12m S    0  0.8   0:00.09 postgres:
> db db [local]
> idle
>
> These quickly grow as the application is used to 50+ Mb per instance.
>
> When I restart mongrel (the Rails application processes) these go back
> down to their normal small size.  That makes me suspect this is not
> normal caching and there is some sort of unhealthy leak going on.
>
> Is there something Rails could be doing to cause these to grow?  Maybe
> the connection is not being cleaned up properly?  Is there some sort
> of connection cache going on?


no, most likely the issue is that top is showing you how much
shared_buffers the process has touched over time and it's nothing.
Show us what you see when you think things are going bad.