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Sidekiq
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Simple, efficient message processing for Ruby.
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Sidekiq is compatible with Resque. It uses the exact same
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message format as Resque so it can integrate into an existing Resque processing farm.
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You can have Sidekiq and Resque run side-by-side at the same time and
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use the Resque client to enqueue messages in Redis to be processed by Sidekiq.
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At the same time, Sidekiq uses multithreading so it much more memory efficient than Resque (which forks a new process for every job).
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You'll find that you might need 50 200MB resque processes to peg your CPU
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whereas one 300MB Sidekiq process will peg the same CPU and perform the
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same amount of work. Please see [my blog post on Resque's memory
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efficiency](http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/09/16/improving-resques-memory-efficiency/)
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and how I was able to shrink a Carbon Five client's resque processing farm
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from 9 machines to 1 machine.
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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.
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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
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untested but I will do my best to support them. Ruby 1.8 is not supported.
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Installation
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gem install sidekiq
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Getting Started
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-----------------
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See the [sidekiq home page](http://mperham.github.com/sidekiq) for the simple 4-step process.
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More Information
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-----------------
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Please see the [sidekiq wiki](https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki) for more information.
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[#sidekiq on irc.freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#sidekiq) is dedicated to this project,
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but bug reports or feature requests suggestions should still go through [issues on Github](https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/issues).
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License
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Please see LICENSE for licensing details.
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<a href='http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/16623'><img alt='Click here to lend your support to Open Source and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !' src='http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/16623.png?skin_name=chrome' border='0' /></a>
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Author
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Mike Perham, [@mperham](https://twitter.com/mperham), [http://mikeperham.com](http://mikeperham.com)
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