From: Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2006-08-25T14:56:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Anyone Explain This Memory Leak?

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 14:41 +0900, Kent Sibilev wrote:
> Have you tried to run it with the latest 1.8.5 prerelease?
> from changelog:
> 
> Thu Dec 29 23:59:37 2005  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
> 
>         * eval.c (rb_gc_mark_threads): leave unmarked threads which won't wake
>           up alone, and mark threads in the loading table.  [ruby-dev:28154]
> 
>         * eval.c (rb_gc_abort_threads), gc.c (gc_sweep): kill unmarked
>           threads.  [ruby-dev:28172]
> 

You gotta be kidding me.  A damn bug?  Oh no, according to ara.t.howard
it's because free doesn't actually free.

Man, two days wasted for nothing.

I'll try 1.8.5 tomorrow.  I'm kind of tired of this to be honest.


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