[Mongrel] mongrel garbage collection

[Scott Windsor]

Sorry, for the re-post, but I'm new to the mailing list and wanted to bring
back up and old topic I saw in the archives.

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2008-February/004991.html

I think a patch to delay garbage collection and run it later is pretty
important for high performance web applications.  I do understand the
trade-offs of having explicit vs. implicit garbage collection running, and
would much prefer to off-load my garbage collection until later point (when
users are not waiting for a request).

I agree from the previous points that this could very well be
rails-specific, but isn't this a feature that would benefit all of the
frameworks that use mongrel?

This could be easily added as a configuration option to run after N number
of requests or let the GC behave as normal and run when needed, the default
of course, allowing the GC when it deems necessary.  Adding the collection
would be explicit after processing a request, but before listening to any
new requests.

- scott
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