From: "rmagick@..." Date: 2006-04-04T00:08:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Why ruby GC takes only 8 meg of memory??? 8 meg is the amount of memory that Ruby will allocate before running GC. It's not the maximum amount that Ruby can use. Here's a good description of Ruby's GC: http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theFullyUpturnedBin.html