From: ts Date: 2001-06-09T18:41:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:16351] Re: Garbage Collection? >>>>> "M" == Michael Davis writes: M> process continuously consumes memory. It consumes memory at a rate of M> almost 1 Meg a second when inserting a lot of rows. Running GC.start after M> the inserts are completed does not appear to free any memory. Probably because your variables are always referenced and the GC can remove it because they are valid references. Difficult to say without the source. Guy Decoux