From: Alexander Kellett Date: 2004-12-28T19:20:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Garbage collection trouble it still crashes even with GC.disable therefore verifying that it isn't garbage collection causing the problem thanks for the response :) On Dec 28, 2004, at 11:04 AM, ts wrote: >>>>>> "A" == Alexander Kellett writes: > > A> i'm right in saying that i haven't messed up > A> with gc if when i call GC.disable it still fails right? > A> (i'd made that assumption, but was not sure if it was correct) > > Well, in this case if you call GC.disable it must work. But this is > not a > good idea because the memory will grow and ruby will be slower. > > Generally there is always a better way to do than use GC.disable. > > > Guy Decoux