From: mental@...
Date: 2005-11-22T04:53:28+09:00
Subject: Re: valgrind and embedded ruby

Quoting Heiko Leberer <ihspm@haleb.de>:

> I was just surprised, that the smaller loop doesn't throw any
> errors and as soon as the allocated string objects exceed a given
> memeory size, something seems to go wrong.

There's a bit of a hysteresis in the garbage collection; probably
there aren't any collection passes being triggered until the
allocated space passes a certain threshold.

-mental