Ruby on Rails memory leak when looping through large number of records; find_each doesn’t help
I was able to figure this out myself. There are two places to change. First, disable IdentityMap. In config/application.rb config.active_record.identity_map = false Second, use uncached to wrap up the loop class MemoryTestController < ApplicationController def go ActiveRecord::Base.uncached do Person.find_each do |person| # whatever operation end end end end Now my memory use is under control. … Read more