Re: better File_Column version garbage collecting?

Mark Reginald James
Fri, 11 May 2007 15:12:57 -0000

Bryan Corey wrote:
> Hello all. I was curious if anyone has patched file-column so that when
> you do multiple versions of a photo it doesn''t need to use so much
> memory. A 7.8 megabyte file on my server is quickly eating 350 megs of
> ram. If you figure you have 5 background tasks processing files at the
> same time you quickly are over a gig of RAM, which is just unacceptable
> to me right now for the scale of our project.
>
> I don''t want to ditch file_column though because I like the way it
works
> and have it pretty deeply rooted. I am just hoping there is a way to
> cleanup the memory between the versions it writes or something so at max
> it uses just over 100 megs. Let me know.

Are you using the latest file_column SVN trunk, which has some calls
to run the Ruby garbage collector, or the most recent release (0.3.1)?

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