From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T04:13:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, memory and speed

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:54:04PM +0900, Guillaume Marcais wrote:
[...]
> When the script start, it processes the files at a speed of 10K/s or 
> so. Not lightening fast, but will get the job done. As time goes on, 
> the speed drops down to 100 bytes/s or less, while still taking 100% 
> CPU time. Unbearable. The machine it is running on is pretty good: 
> 4xAMD Opteron 64bit, 32G memory, local scsi raided drive.
> 
> Does the performance of Ruby collapse past a certain memory usage? Like 
> the GC kicks in all the time.
> 
> Any clue on how to speed this up? Any help appreciated.
[...]

Have you tried to increment GC_MALLOC_LIMIT in gc.c?

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