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mperham committed Apr 9, 2013
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At the same time, Sidekiq uses multithreading so it is 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.
the same CPU and perform the same amount of work.


Requirements
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I test on Ruby 1.9.3 and JRuby 1.6.x in 1.9 mode. Other versions/VMs are
I test on Ruby 1.9.3 and JRuby 1.7.x. Other versions/VMs are
untested but I will do my best to support them. Ruby 1.8 is not supported.

Redis 2.0 or greater is required.
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![Web UI](https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/raw/master/examples/web-ui.png)


Want More?
Want to Upgrade?
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I also sell Sidekiq Pro, an extension to Sidekiq which provides more
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