From: Igal Koshevoy <igal@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T01:51:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18242] Re: Severe problem with garbage collection

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Bertram Scharpf
<lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> I have a really large amount of data here and a Ruby program
> dealing with it. I noticed how this program started to use swap
> space and then, hours later, terminated. Then I watched (Linux
> here) "/proc/$$/statm". Yes, the whole memory was eaten up.

Thanks for reporting the issue. The 1.8.6_p230 official release had a
memory leak in it, which is probably what you encountered. That
problem has been resolved:
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/216

-igal