Debugging Ruby on Rails performance for WhatDoTheyKnow

WhatDoTheyKnow getting too popular! Yay!

Solving the (memory) performance issues more traffic can cause? Boo.

• RailsSpawnMethod conservative
• Monit to kick apache when memory (leaks) got too high
• Profile (memory) usage.
• More efficient memory usage (“text.gsub!” rather than “text = text.gsub”)
• common sense ;)