From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2005-12-12T21:07:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory Usage

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:10:27PM +0900, Horacio Sanson wrote:
> 
> 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.

Are you making heavy use of symbols?  They don't relinquish RAM
unless/until the script exits, as far as I'm aware.

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