From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-09-23T11:14:43+09:00
Subject: Re: DrbUndumped and GC

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Eric Hodel wrote:

> Nope, DRb is not that smart by default.  Your Proxy instance is immediately
> available for garbage collection.  You want to use a different IdConv class
> to ensure objects don't get GC'd before they're supposed to, or don't get
> GC'd until your clients are done using them.

my gut was right.

>> i'm about to dig into the code and run some tests to see - but am hoping
>> some of you drb experts out there may already have done this ;-)
>
> http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/idconv.html

awesome.  i browsed quickly and will have to read completely tomorrow.  thanks
for putting this together.

> Shows how the various id conversion classes work with DRb, letting you
> control how and when objects get GC'd.
>
> A ref-counting IdConv would be a nifty add-on to DRb.

that's essentially what i'm going to do (see my post to Masatoshi) -
simplified since i know there will only every be 1 reference held.

i was just doing some searching and came across some other posts by you on
this matter - i'm very glad we have a resident drb expert on the list.  thanks
alot for the replies and docs.

more tomorrow...

cheers.

-a
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