Memory use

[iwasinnamuknow]

Hi,

I have a ~39MB collection of seeds. All told around 400k records. Nothing incredibly fancy, just a lot of lookup data for an app I maintain. Initial seed of this data will cause the ruby process to consume massive amounts of RAM in order to complete. The app usually runs on a VM with 4GB RAM, unfortunately we have to bump this to at least 8GB just to get the db seeded, then we drop it back down to 4.

Is this sort of memory use expected? Is there any way I can get spring to free up memory more?

Thanks

[ltk]

I expected the memory footprint to be big, but not that big. I'll look into it.