How to Fix Tricky Sidekiq Memory Issues

If you use Sidekiq to run background jobs for a Ruby app long enough, you’ll eventually encounter memory problems. There’s plenty of great content focused on helping you find and fix memory issues, but sometimes a background job just needs a lot of memory! Whether you’re doing an expensive data import or iterating through many records, some background jobs need way more memory than others. If you’ve already tried the common advice on making a background job more memory-efficient and it’s not working for you, there are a few options for making them less problematic.