From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-06-08T23:45:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory leak?

Nathan Smith wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
>> Nathan Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I get very different results in my program when I add a simple print
>>>
>>
>> What kind of results?  Memory usage?  Was this the first output
>> statement
>> in the whole program?
>
> I have many print statements, although I'll cut them out to see if
> anything changes.
>
>> You probably created some temporary strings for / during printing
>> and the
>> GC doesn't collect them immediately.
>
> Aye, I thought of that, but the problem is a little deeper than that.
> Objects are being created dynamically, and the actual type of the
> object that is created changes -- depending on if I put enough print
> statements into the code. It looks and smells like a memory leak.....
> :(

Wait, you say the type of objects changes and call that a memory leak?
This doesn't make sense to me - at least not in the light of the
information you have disclosed so far.

> Are there any tools that can verify this? Seems like that would be a
> problem, considering that Ruby generally doesn't have memory leaks.
> Thanks for your help

Difficult with GC.  You could use ObjectSpace to create some statistics
for objects per class or such.

    robert