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authorEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2010-05-06 14:08:51 -0700
committerEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2010-05-06 14:10:20 -0700
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+# Run GC after every request, before attempting to accept more connections.
+#
+# You could customize this patch to read REQ["PATH_INFO"] and only
+# call GC.start after expensive requests.
+#
+# We could have this wrap the response body.close as middleware, but the
+# scannable stack is would still be bigger than it would be here.
+#
+# This shouldn't hurt overall performance as long as the server cluster
+# is at <=50% CPU capacity, and improves the performance of most memory
+# intensive requests.  This serves to improve _client-visible_
+# performance (possibly at the cost of overall performance).
+#
+# We'll call GC after each request is been written out to the socket, so
+# the client never sees the extra GC hit it. It's ideal to call the GC
+# inside the HTTP server (vs middleware or hooks) since the stack is
+# smaller at this point, so the GC will both be faster and more
+# effective at releasing unused memory.
+#
+# This monkey patch is _only_ effective for applications that use a lot
+# of memory, and will hurt simpler apps/endpoints that can process
+# multiple requests before incurring GC.
+
+class Unicorn::HttpServer
+  REQ = Unicorn::HttpRequest::REQ
+  alias _process_client process_client
+  undef_method :process_client
+  def process_client(client)
+    _process_client(client)
+    REQ.clear
+    GC.start
+  end
+end if defined?(Unicorn)