From: Eric Wong Date: 2014-05-03T00:15:20+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:62305] Re: [ruby-cvs:52906] nari:r45760 (trunk): * gc.c (gc_after_sweep): suppress unnecessary expanding heap. Zachary Scott wrote: > Please open a backport request if you feel so. Opened #9796. There may also be other GC bugfixes which landed in trunk recently which helped improve the situation. I did not update my Ruby trunk install for a while before last night, so maybe other fixes are related to the bloat I saw.