From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2004-09-26T03:34:32+09:00
Subject: memory leak from Hash#delete/fork/drb??


any idea why this leaks memory?


   require 'drb/drb'
   require 'socket'

   class JobRunner
     include DRbUndumped
     attr :pid
     attr :command
     def initialize command
       @command = command
       @pid = fork { exec @command }
     end
   end

   class JobRunnerDaemon
     def initialize
       @runners = {}
     end
     def runner command
       begin
         r = JobRunner::new command
       rescue Errno::ENOMEM
         GC.start
         r = JobRunner::new command
       end
       @runners[r.pid] = r
       r
     end
     def wait r
       pid, status = Process::waitpid2 r.pid, Process::WNOHANG|Process::WUNTRACED
       @runners.delete pid
       [pid, status]
     end
   end

   $VERBOSE = nil
   STDOUT.sync = true
   port = Integer(ARGV.shift || (rand(8192 - 1025) + 1025))
   uri = "druby://#{ Socket::gethostname }:#{ port }"
   pid = fork

   if pid
     sleep 1
     DRb.start_service nil, nil
     jrd = DRbObject.new nil, uri
     loop{ p(jrd.wait(jrd.runner('echo 42'))) }
   else
     DRb.start_service uri, JobRunnerDaemon::new
     DRb.thread.join
   end


when the child is waited on all resources should be freed and the hash entry
blown away - why the leak?  what am i doing wrong here?

-a
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