From: Ville Mattila <mulperi@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T14:44:53+09:00
Subject: Re: More on memory and possible leaks ... (longish)

Mark Probert <probertm@acm.org> writes:
> 1.  I am using -lots- of memory under Solaris, without any exceptions being 
> thrown (approx 200Mb per-thread reported for the full application).  When I 
> trim everything down to do just login with no state saving, I am using about 
> 12Mb per thread.  This seems to be very high, though I am not really sure 
> whether that amount of usage is or not.  Perhaps it is in keeping with Ruby's 
> thread model.  
>
    Do you use explicit "GC.start"s in your code? I've had similar memory
    consumption problem in the past with telnet as well and memory was freed.
    when put GC.start to data collecting loop. However I didn't use
    threads so my advice may be worhtless for you

 - Ville