From: Rainer Perl <imperator@...>
Date: 2001-04-27T21:10:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14314] Q: how to track memory-usage?

Hello,

I've seen the following in a post about GDBM memory-leaks:

--snip--
irb> load "leak.rb"
irb> L=Leak.new   15.9M
irb> L.in   33.0M
irb> 10.times{L.in}  37.8M
irb> 10.times{L.in}  38.8M
irb> L.out   115M
irb> 10.times{L.out}  980M
--snip--

To me, this looks like someone got irb to display memory-usage (and a
second post about a possible leak in the mysql-module suggests that
too). However, I did not find anything like that. Could someone please
tell me how this works? #-)

Is there any other neat way to track memory-usage? I need to test my
extension for leaks.

Best regards,

    Rainer