From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-04-27T13:14:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ] MemoryProfile A memory usage profiling module. (was memory leak)

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, John Carter wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>
>> Got a memory leak in the following code.. not sure if DRb is necessary
>> in it or not.
>
> Try
>   http://rubyforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=70
>
> It is really _very_ trivial to use. (it is also pretty brute force and
> dumb code)
>
> Save to snippet as MemoryProfile.rb and then run your code as
>
> ruby -w -r MemoryProfile your_code.rb
>
> On exit it reports simple counts and also traverses the object tree to
> give detailed counts of what object is using what and prints the
> largest object as well. The log file is appended to /tmp/memory_profile.log
>
> It takes quite a lot of time and memory...
>
> It also dumps /proc/pid/status to display your vm usage, so it is a
> little Linux specific, but you can cure that with a  # or two.

very cool.  thanks for this.

cheers.

-a
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