From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-01-04T01:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory Leak Madness

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Robert Klemme wrote:

>
> It may actually be doing it.  The memory footprint you see on OS side need 
> not be directly related to the number of objects currently in memory.  I am 
> not sure whether Ruby ever gives back memory to the OS but if not the effect 
> you see might actually be from a situation where there were needed many 
> objects at once.
>

silly robert - don't you know that free always returns memory to the OS!

   http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/f6dda5896cbba030/adf86eb9e1fda322?lnk=gst&q=zed+shaw++free&rnum=1#adf86eb9e1fda322

;-)

-a
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