From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T00:33:10+09:00
Subject: Re: 'failed to allocate memory' with Mp3Info module


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> Hey all:
> 
> I'm pretty new to Ruby [this is my second script], but I'm trying to 
> write a little playlist generator script to scan a few 
> directories every 
> once in a while [probably in a cron job], and update a .m3u playlist 
> based on what it finds. I like having info in my playlist so it loads 
> automatically with the playlist, so I'm trying to use the Mp3Info 
> module. I've got my list of files in an array called files. 
> Here's the 
> code I'm using to test things out:
> 
> i = 0
> files.each do |f|
>   Mp3Info.open(f) do |info|
>     puts f
>     i += 1
>   end
> end
> 
> i is just to see how far it's getting, and puts f is just to see what 
> the particular song is.
> 
> It runs just fine, up to i=32. At that point, it errors out, 
> with: 

<snip>

Looks to me like you're just running out of memory, since that line is
just an IO#read.  I think Mp3Info is not freeing the used memory between
reads as it should, but I'd have to look at the source a bit closer.

Regards,

Dan