Better File_Column version garbage collecting?

Rails
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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.

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Bryan C. wrote:

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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We develop, watch us RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.

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Mark Reginald J. wrote:

Bryan C. wrote:

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)?

–
We develop, watch us RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.

you may want to take a look at upload_column