From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T10:41:34+09:00
Subject: Re: memory leak

Joe Van Dyk 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

It's out of date now, but I used to patch ruby to tell me why a certain 
object was not collectable. It's down near the end of:

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?GCAndMemoryManagement

This might be worth updating if you know what objects are not being 
collected, but can't tell why.