I made what I think is a small change yet the change in my app was disastrous - cpu spun, memory went out of control, and mongrel crashed within seconds. I have a controller which takes a param for submission_id . Submissions have 1 or more reviews, and reviews each have one image. There may be more than one image per submission. The view (and partial) code does some very intense things, like @ submission.reviews.each | review | review.image.imageprofile.releases.empty? , etc. No doubt causes huge joins and queries down the stack. I built a query for a subset of the reviews belonging to @submission: @current_reviews = Review.find(:all, :conditions => cond) The query takes 20 milliseconds. [cond is along the lines of finding max(id) where submission_id=@submission.id group by image_id ] Then when I try to loop thru these in view, replacing @ submission.reviews.each with @current_reviews.each , it leaks like crazy! Same code works just fine w/ @submission.reviews.each... The partial that it''s rendering in that loop is huge - 150 lines of code, with all kinds of join-inducing references. Why would this behavior be any different for a SUBSET ? Thanks in advance for any insights, things to try, places to look, etc. Cheers, Marc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---