From: jc Date: 2005-01-20T07:26:05+09:00 Subject: Re: 1.8.2 - conituations memory leak fixed? The last Ruby Weekly News has something that might be helpful here: http://rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyNews/2005-01-03 Tanaka Akira posted a patch to record GC-related information: * the total number of GC invocation * the number of GC invocation, when an object is collected * the location where the last GC is yielded This patch might help you if you are interested in GC internals.