From: Srinivas JONNALAGADDA Date: 2006-08-25T14:43:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Can Anyone Explain This Memory Leak? On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 14:33 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: > i think this is just illustraing reason 42 why i prefer Kernel.fork to > Thread.new - the only real way to return memory to the os is to exit! ;-) And why Apache with pre-fork is good for long-running applications :-) Greetings, JS