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I''ve been digging around all morning through google trying to understand the problem of recycled objects. I''m only getting the error sometimes, so its very had to track down. I dont think I''m using any variables in my worker that come from the app so I''m not sure what is being gc''d that is causing the errors. You can see that the real work

The index page of my rails app grabs an rss feed from a neighboring news site. Unfortunately, the process of grabbing that feed seems to be slowing down the initial load time of my site to the point where it takes about 10-12 seconds to respond and render. I''d like to speed that up somehow (for 8-10 seconds it looks like my server is not responding at all..) Any suggestions? I