# Is my rails app using too much memory? (top output) **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 27, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-my-rails-app-using-too-much-memory-top-output/107887 "2007-06-27T05:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-my-rails-app-using-too-much-memory-top-output/107887/1 "2007-06-27T05:06:00Z")
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 22305 root 17 0 893m 854m 2548 R 46 21.7 2:59.71 mongrel\_rails 22302 root 16 0 646m 606m 2632 S 51 15.4 2:24.34 mongrel\_rails It seems to stay consistent at those numbers, but those seem very high. I have a cluster running of two processes and that’s what I get for the processes when I point a script that hits my server 100 times as fast as it can. Is it possible I have a memory leak? Thanks for your help.