From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-06-10T07:05:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16376] Re: Garbage Collection?

On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:16:37AM +0900, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> It sounds like this might be a bug in the version of ruby you have, 
> because it doesn't explode in memory usage when I run it here either. 
> Running the exact script above, RedHat 7.1, Ruby 1.7.0 (CVS), gives:

Same here.

ser@ender ~% ruby -v
ruby 1.6.4 (2001-06-04) [i586-linux]
ser@ender ~% uname -a
Linux ender.germane-software.com 2.4.4 #13 Wed May 2 05:23:30 PDT 2001 i586 unknown

Running the script gives me:

ser@ender ~% ruby test.rb
ser       2649  0.0  0.2  2600 1296 pts/2    S    14:57   0:00 ruby test.rb
ser       2649 79.8  0.2  2764 1464 pts/2    S    14:57   0:06 ruby test.rb
ser       2649 78.1  0.2  2764 1464 pts/2    S    14:57   0:12 ruby test.rb
ser       2649 77.6  0.2  2656 1368 pts/2    S    14:57   0:18 ruby test.rb
ser       2649 77.3  0.2  2656 1368 pts/2    S    14:57   0:24 ruby test.rb
ser       2649 79.2  0.2  2656 1368 pts/2    S    14:57   0:30 ruby test.rb
...

Ad nauseum.  The only changes are in the CPU usage and the time.

--- SER