From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-08-17T06:57:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Unix vs. Windows

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Nooner [mailto:rick@nooner.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:44 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Ruby on Unix vs. Windows
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:38:30AM +0900, Berger, Daniel wrote:
> > 
> > I suspect mostly the latter, with a little bit of the 
> former mixed in 
> > for good measure.  I'm pretty sure the GC algorithm is different on 
> > Windows, though I can't remember the details now.
> > 
> 
> That's what I suspect as well.
> 
> > Any chance you could show us the relevant code?  Maybe we 
> could help 
> > you with the memory footprint in general.
> > 
> 
> I'm afraid that I can't.  That's the problem when you work 
> for a big company.  Even though most of my work is in Ruby, I 
> can share very little of it.  I can tell you what it is 
> though.  It's a SIP protocol analyzer and it builds SIP call 
> flows in memory from snoop files so there is alot of state 
> that has to be kept resident in memory for each call (and we 
> are talking about 1000's of simultanous calls and millions of 
> messages). 
> 
> Thanks,
> Rick

Just for to see if it helps, you could add some explicit calls to
GC.start.  I can't say what that will do to your performance, however.

Regards,

Dan