[#16113] Strange idea... exporting from a scope — "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>

Hello...

33 messages 2001/06/01

[#16364] Re: Garbage Collection? — Michael Davis <mdavis@...>

Windows 2000 and linux (RedHat 6.2). I have run these tests on both OSs.

12 messages 2001/06/09

[#16400] Symbolic Computation III — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>

14 messages 2001/06/11

[#16502] Playing with Ruby Syntax (was: Initial thoughts about Ruby From a Smalltalk Programmer) — jweirich@...

Michael> Hi Everyone, I have to say I'm utterly fascinated by Ruby

9 messages 2001/06/15

[#16661] Problem running irb with Ruby 1.6.4 under FreeBSD 4.0 — Bob Alexander <balexander@...>

I've installed Ruby 1.6.4 on a FreeBSD 4.0 machine, and get the

11 messages 2001/06/20

[#16686] opening db files made by apache dbmmanage — Fritz Heinrichmeyer <fritz.heinrichmeyer@...>

14 messages 2001/06/21

[#16801] rb_define_class() vs Class.new() — Kero van Gelder <kero@...4050.upc-d.chello.nl>

Hi,

18 messages 2001/06/23
[#16802] Re: rb_define_class() vs Class.new() — ts <decoux@...> 2001/06/23

>>>>> "K" == Kero van Gelder <kero@d4050.upc-d.chello.nl> writes:

[#16841] RE: national characters is strings — "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@...>

Next week I'll try to rebuild Ruby with Unicode strings. But it would be

15 messages 2001/06/25
[#16842] Re: national characters is strings — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/06/25

Hi,

[#16843] Re: national characters is strings — "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@...> 2001/06/25

That's good enough. But I'm afraid this could ( not would ) cause string

[#16868] Something strange with Ruby's inheritance mechanism — Eric Jacoboni <jaco@...>

As Ruby beginner, i try some "canonical" OO scripts. Doing so, I've

14 messages 2001/06/25
[#16873] RE: Something strange with Ruby's inheritance mechanism — "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@...> 2001/06/26

[#16879] Re: Something strange with Ruby's inheritance mechanism — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/06/26

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Aleksei Guzev wrote:

[#16869] Something strange with Ruby's inheritance mechanism — Eric Jacoboni <jaco@...>

As Ruby beginner, i try some "canonical" OO scripts. Doing so, I've

12 messages 2001/06/25

[#16881] — "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@...>

32 messages 2001/06/26
[#16916] Re: Method overloading (option) Was: Re: — "Wayne Blair" <wayne.blair@...> 2001/06/26

[#16920] Re: Method overloading (option) Was: Re: — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/06/26

Hi,

[#16888] finalizers, destructors and whatnot — "David Leal" <david@...>

Hi all,

16 messages 2001/06/26

[#17037] keeping an Exception object alive — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

19 messages 2001/06/28
[#17055] Re: keeping an Exception object alive — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/06/29

Hi,

[#17066] RCR: Exception methods (was: Re: Re: keeping an Exception object alive) — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2001/06/29

Hello --

[#17076] Re: RCR: Exception methods (was: Re: Re: keeping an Exception object alive) — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/06/29

Hi,

[#17079] Re: RCR: Exception methods (was: Re: Re: keeping an Exception object alive) — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2001/06/29

Hello --

[#17138] Re: RCR: Exception methods (was: Re: Re: keeping an Exception object alive) — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2001/07/02

Hi,

[#17141] Re: RCR: Exception methods (was: Re: Re: keeping an Exception object alive) — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2001/07/02

Hello --

[#17142] Re: RCR: Exception methods (was: Re: Re: keeping an Exception object alive) — ts <decoux@...> 2001/07/02

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

[ruby-talk:16361] Re: Garbage Collection?

From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-06-09 15:13:36 UTC
List: ruby-talk #16361
>>>>> "M" == Michael Davis <mdavis@sevainc.com> writes:

M> I have narrowed the issue down a little further.  It appears to be related 
M> to Marshal.dump() and/or the << method, the += method does not eat memory. 

pigeon% cat b.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
def test_str_cat(count)
   a = ''
   0.upto(count) do |i|
      system("ps aux | grep b.rb | grep -v grep") if i % 10 == 1
      0.upto(99999) do |i|
         a << 'aaaa'
      end
      a = ''
      GC.start
   end
end
 
system("ps aux | head -1")
test_str_cat(200)
system("ps aux | grep b.rb | grep -v grep")
 
pigeon% 

pigeon% b.rb
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
ts       25282 50.0  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:00 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 99.9  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:05 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 99.9  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:10 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 99.9  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:15 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 99.5  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:19 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 99.0  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:24 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 98.7  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:29 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 98.4  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:34 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 98.3  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:39 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 98.1  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:44 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 98.0  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:49 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.9  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:53 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.8  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   0:58 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.8  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   1:03 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.7  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   1:08 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.7  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   1:13 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.6  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   1:18 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.6  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   1:22 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.5  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   1:27 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.5  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   1:32 ruby ./b.rb
ts       25282 97.5  0.5  2476 1308 pts/0    S    17:08   1:37 ruby ./b.rb
pigeon%
 
M>  I wonder if it could be an issue with realloc not interacting properly 
M> with garbage collection.  Any suggestions?

 What is your OS ?

Guy Decoux



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