From: Horacio Sanson <hsanson@...>
Date: 2005-12-12T19:10:27+09:00
Subject: Memory Usage


I have a ruby script that reads data from a database, processes the data (long 
texts) and saves the results back to the database. I works great and at good 
speed.

The problem is that I ran the script on friday and left it until monday when I 
saw some memory related errors in the console (Insufficient Memory 
something...). I ran the script again and fired up the windows task manager 
and then I saw that for every 10~15 records in the DB the script processes 
the memory goes up 1MB and there are no signs of it going down.

I started the script this morning and the PC was at 400MB ram usage, now is 
night and the PC is at 1.05GB ram usage.

Is this a memory leak?? is it caused by my scritpt? or is a Ruby thing??

I use Ruby 1.8.2 and ActiveRecord 1.13.1 in a WinXP machine. 

any comments on how to find out where the memory is going are welcome.

regards,
Horacio