Ruby 2.1: Out-of-Band GC · computer talk by @tmm129 Jan 2014 Ruby 2.1's GC is better than ever, but ruby still uses a stop-the-world GC implementation. This means collections triggered during request processing will add latency to your response time. One way to mitigate this is by running GC in-between requests, i.e. "Out-of-Band". OOBGC is a popular technique, first introduced by Unicorn and later integrated into Passenger. Traditionally, these
