Seems kinda par for the course for a Rails app. http://meta.discourse.org/t/tuning-ruby-and-rails-for-discourse/4126 http://meta.discourse.org/t/tuning-ruby-an

Seems kinda par for the course for a Rails app. http://meta.discourse.org/t/tuning-ruby-and-rails-for-discourse/4126 http://meta.discourse.org/t/tuning-ruby-and-rails-for-discou... Scroll down and you'll see that on an average request, Discourse eats up 230,000 strings [which are all objects in Ruby] per request. The entire thread is about relaxing the garbage collector so that it won't run until the request is over.