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I'm wondering what people need this much RAM for? Wouldn't it make more sense to just spin up more dyno's with fewer instances of your app running on each dyno?
by jurre 11y ago
I'm wondering what people need this much RAM for? Wouldn't it make more sense to just spin up more dyno's with fewer instances of your app running on each dyno?
- beat 11y agoDepends on what you're doing. I've worked on systems where we had 72gb and 96gb of RAM, and we tuned them within an inch of their lives. But hey, 512k is good enough for anyone, Bill Gates once said. edit: If I was doing something memory-intensive or performance-intensive, I wouldn't be on Heroku anyway.
- johnward 11y agoI'm not that familiar with dynos but I can see how people would need even more than 2.5gb for specific jobs. We push the limits of servers with 512gb of RAM regularly.
- chkuendig 11y agoI'd assume its for worker dynos with a process which cant easily scale horizontally.
- Kiro 11y agoI'm running a game server in node.js where the app's state is persistent so can't really so can't really spin up more dynos. The whole server lives in that particular instance.