From: Toby DiPasquale <toby@...>
Date: 2006-03-18T02:45:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing long-running daemons without memory leaks?

unknown wrote:
>      harp:~ > ps aux|head -1;  while true;do ruby b.rb && ps aux|grep 
[...]
>      ahoward  13671 18.3 19.5 212736 200952 pts/26 R   10:14   1:12 ruby 
> a.rb
>      ahoward  13671 18.4 21.1 230824 216768 pts/26 R   10:14   1:12 ruby 
> a.rb
>      ahoward  13671 18.5 22.3 230816 229404 pts/26 S   10:14   1:12 ruby 
> a.rb
> 
> 
> so memory builds to about 25 and, presumably when the gc kicks in, drops 
> to 15
> - but it certainly stays in this range.
> 
> what os and ruby version?

ruby 1.8.4 on Ubuntu Linux, kernel 2.6.12-10 on a P4 Thinkpad with 1GB 
RAM. The other systems having this problem are all also running Linux 
2.6.x with ruby 1.8.4.

One thing about the above: you do realize that's ~250MB and ~150MB, not 
25 and 15, right?

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