From: nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T10:29:29+09:00
Subject: Re: force_recycle

Hi,

At Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:16:10 +0900,
Kroeger Simon (ext) wrote in [ruby-talk:151514]:
> but that's ok. I have a rather large project here and it is eating
> memory. I thought it would be nice to delete the objects we think are
> obsolet and see where it goes down. 

The wrong thing is that you misuse GC to maintain expensive
(or external) resources.  Use a releasing method and blocks to
ensure they get called.

<Ensuring post process>
http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/oscon2005/mgp00047.html
http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/oscon2005/mgp00048.html
http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/oscon2005/mgp00049.html

-- 
Nobu Nakada