From: Tom Willis <tom.willis@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T10:32:17+09:00
Subject: Re: memory leak

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:13:22 +0900, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My application's size in memory seems to be increasing by about 250KB
> a second.  This is not a good thing.
> 
> Are there any tools or strategies that I can use to track down the leak?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> 

I'd probably start with the profiler.
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Ruby_Profiler

This will at least identify the hot spots in your code. And you have
to start somewhere right?

If you suspect it's in a lib you depend on, I would write small
scripts that use the only the lib you suspect, and see if similair
behavior appears.

Basically what I try to do is eliminate the knowns, and make the
unknowns become knowns.
-- 
Thomas G. Willis
http://paperbackmusic.net