Sidekiq is consuming too much memory even with UNICORN_SIDEKIQ_MAX_RSS adjusted

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Continuing the discussion from Sidekiq is consuming too much memory, restarting:

I’ve adjusted the setting and see this in the container:

root@ip-10-4-2-52:/# set|grep SIDE
UNICORN_SIDEKIQS=1
UNICORN_SIDEKIQ_MAX_RSS=1000

But I see this in the logs:

Sidekiq is consuming too much memory (using: 535.10M) for 'site', restarting

It would seem like 535.10M < 1000, right? I feel like I must have a typo or something else really silly.

This is a very busy site with 600-800K pageviews/day with 7 (largely idle) web containers running in ECS.

There are 4 CPUs in the task, should I increase UNICORN_SIDEKIQS?

If I run [ENV["UNICORN_SIDEKIQ_MAX_RSS"].to_i, 500].max.megabytes in rails, I get 1048576000, so it seems like Rails should have access to the ENV, but maybe running rails myself is somehow different from the one that gets cranked up on boot?

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it looks like you are doing the right thing… if you raise UNICORN_SIDEKIQS to 2 do you see 2 sidekiqs?

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I’ll try increasing the number of sidekiq next, but I’m confused that it says 538 mb is to much when it’s set for 1000.

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Agree, just want to see that at least one of the env vars is “sticking”

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