Adam McCrea @adamlogic.com · Dec 9

We’re often asked if autoscaling will help with high memory issues. NOPE! Adding more instances (or dynos, machines, etc.) won’t solve a memory problem. You're running the same processes on each instance, so every instance will have the memory problem.

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Adam McCrea · Dec 9

This can kill your perf with high swap. You might think you have a response time issue when it’s really just a memory issue! There are only two solutions: - Use larger instances/dynos - Use less memory per instance Yeah, duh, the solution to high memory is to use less memory. BEAR WITH ME...