From: Scott Ellsworth <scott@...>
Date: 2005-07-14T09:30:51+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I reduce the memory usage of a script?

In article <8HKdneMVh9MZDUjfSa8jmA@karoo.co.uk>,
 "daz" <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk> wrote:

>           if (!found) then
>              puts "Unknown  #{f}"
>           end
>           data = nil
>           GC.start   # garbage collect

This did seem to drop the memory usage on my MacOS X 10.4.2 system.

I will investigate the Find.find command next to see if I can get rid of 
some recursion.  An array of 5500 paths should not be _that_ big, at 
least in comparison with four or five levels of directory depth.

Scott

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