This a silly question, but couldn't find an answer. I'm running a rails app on jruby, and I use sidekiq to proccess background jobs. Do I really have to run sidekiq in another instance of jvm (is that what happens running bundle exec sidekiq) ?
Jruby is too much RAM consuming so this is not possible with my aws t2.micro instance.
Due to high memory consumption your AWS microinstance will choke eventually. There is one way to have both Ruby App and Background process sidekiq running.
Either you can boot another EC2 micro with sidekiq. You app instance and sidekiq server will share the same Redis instance. So, your BG processing wont be disrupted.
Another way is to bootup a Heroku free dyno.
Or you can move to CRuby or MRI.
hope this helps