We have one Rails box w/ ~2 gigs of RAM which has been sitting pretty since the golang process also on the box stopped hogging 100% of the available file descri

We have one Rails box w/ ~2 gigs of RAM which has been sitting pretty since the golang process also on the box stopped hogging 100% of the available file descriptors. Our scaling issue is with ruby processes, of which we have several thousand active at the moment. Each process runs one wee little universe, filled with wee little traders trading wee little stocks, for the benefit of a single player playing a single level. These aren't a JVM language (or Golang, for that matter) out of expediency: I had to write the economic simulation and the trading algorithms and get it done in about ~2 weeks, so I wrote them in my best language, Ruby.