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Simple, efficient message processing for Ruby.
Sidekiq uses threads to handle many messages at the same time in the
same process. It integrates tightly with Rails 3 to make background
message processing dead simple.
Sidekiq is compatible with Resque. It uses the exact same
message format as Resque so it can integrate into an existing Resque processing farm.
You can have Sidekiq and Resque run side-by-side at the same time and
use the Resque client to enqueue messages in Redis to be processed by Sidekiq.
At the same time, Sidekiq uses multithreading so it much more memory efficient than Resque (which forks a new process for every job).
You'll find that you might need 50 200MB resque processes to peg your CPU
whereas one 300MB Sidekiq process will peg the same CPU and perform the
same amount of work. Please see [my blog post on Resque's memory
At the same time, Sidekiq uses multithreading so it much more memory efficient than
Resque (which forks a new process for every job). You'll find that you might need
50 200MB resque processes to peg your CPU whereas one 300MB Sidekiq process will peg
the same CPU and perform the same amount of work. Please see [my blog post on Resque's memory
efficiency](http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/09/16/improving-resques-memory-efficiency/)
and how I was able to shrink a Carbon Five client's resque processing farm
from 9 machines to 1 machine.
In sum, if your jobs are well-behaved and threadsafe, Sidekiq is probably a good replacement for Resque. If your jobs are not thread-safe or they leak memory, you may want to continue using Resque, because its forking model gives you more protection.
Requirements
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I test on Ruby 1.9.3 and JRuby 1.6.5 in 1.9 mode. Other versions/VMs are
I test on Ruby 1.9.3 and JRuby 1.6.x in 1.9 mode. Other versions/VMs are
untested but I will do my best to support them. Ruby 1.8 is not supported.
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Mike Perham, [@mperham](https://twitter.com/mperham), [http://mikeperham.com](http://mikeperham.com)