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    copied!<p>I'm working on a Rails application at the moment which seems to kill the memory on my iMac until I eventually have to restart. I have a 2.66 GHZ processor with 4GB Ram on OSX 10.6. </p> <p>When I boot the rails app, the memory consumption shows the following (ps aux | grep rails): </p> <pre><code>Gavin 726 0.0 3.8 2590812 158860 s000 S+ 9:27am 0:09.90 /Users/Gavin/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.01/bin/ruby script/rails s </code></pre> <p>The RSS is at a cool 158,860 kb After a few requests to localhost, this number jumps up to: </p> <pre><code>Gavin 726 0.0 14.1 3031792 592888 s000 S+ 9:27am 0:27.00 /Users/Gavin/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.01/bin/ruby script/rails s </code></pre> <p>592,888 kb!!</p> <p>and with general development use, it goes up again and again and again: </p> <pre><code>Gavin 726 1.5 25.0 3487516 1050180 s000 S+ 9:27am 0:59.29 /Users/Gavin/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.01/bin/ruby script/rails s </code></pre> <p>I'm running REE using RVM ruby 1.8.7 (2010-12-23 patchlevel 330) [i686-darwin10.6.0], MBARI 0x6770, Ruby Enterprise Edition 2011.01 </p> <p>The app is using Rails 3.0.6 </p> <p>The application is not particularly SQL intensive and there are almost no associations included when records are loaded (not required in the architecture). </p> <p>Am I right in saying this is a memory leak or is there something else I should be looking at? </p> <p>Can anybody offer some advice on how I can solve this? </p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Here's a full list of the gems used just incase there are any known suspects in there: </p> <pre><code>source 'http://rubygems.org' gem "omniauth", "0.2.0" gem "fb_graph" gem 'rails', '&gt;=3.0.6' gem 'mysql2' gem "delayed_job" gem "rvm" gem "whenever" gem "less" gem "bcrypt-ruby", :require =&gt; "bcrypt" gem "twitter" gem "paperclip" gem "aws-s3" gem "RedCloth" gem "decent_exposure", :git =&gt; "git://github.com/voxdolo/decent_exposure.git" # Application monitoring services gem 'hoptoad_notifier', "&gt;=2.4.5" gem "newrelic_rpm", "&gt;=2.13.4" gem "yahoo-weather", "1.2.0", :require =&gt; false gem "json", "~&gt;1.4.6" gem 'will_paginate', :git =&gt; "git://github.com/mislav/will_paginate.git", :branch =&gt; "rails3" gem 'acts-as-taggable-on' gem "aasm", "&gt;=2.2.0", :require =&gt; "aasm" gem 'thinking-sphinx', '2.0.2', :require =&gt; 'thinking_sphinx' # These gems are not required on the Staging/Production server group :development, :test do gem 'capistrano' gem "capistrano-ext" gem "nifty-generators" gem 'factory_girl_rails', :git =&gt; "http://github.com/CodeMonkeySteve/factory_girl_rails.git" # Keep on top of the latest RSpec Gems gem "rspec-rails", :git =&gt; "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git" gem "rspec", :git =&gt; "git://github.com/rspec/rspec.git" gem "rspec-core", :git =&gt; "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-core.git" gem "rspec-expectations", :git =&gt; "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations.git" gem "rspec-mocks", :git =&gt; "git://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks.git" gem 'shoulda' gem "mocha" # gives us the mock_model method for mocha gem 'rspec-rails-mocha', '~&gt; 0.3.0' gem "faker" gem "autotest", "&gt;=4.4.6" gem "autotest-growl" gem "autotest-rails" gem "database_cleaner" gem "redgreen" gem "launchy" gem "faker" gem 'ruby-debug' gem "rcov" gem "rdoc" gem "ruby-prof" end </code></pre>
 

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