From: Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@...>
Date: 2007-07-03T08:10:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Clearing the RAM

Then just fire up the garbage collector explicitly.

Ruby already does it's own garbage collection, but you can explicitly
tell it to by putting

GC.start

in your code after a heavy memory action.  Also good to nil out any
variables that you know you have finished with to give the GC a good
heads up on which memory blocks it can safely ditch.

See http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/GC.html for the API

Regards

Mikel

On 7/3/07, Ari Brown <ari@aribrown.com> wrote:
> I mean freeing it.
>
> On Jul 1, 2007, at 12:43 PM, SonOfLilit wrote:
>
> > Do you mean zero it to disallow peeking, or do you mean freeing it?
> >
> >
> > Aur
> >
> > On 6/26/07, Ari Brown <ari@aribrown.com> wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >> I was wondering, is there a way to clear the RAM Ruby uses in some
> >> code? For instance, if I read in an entire file into the memory, can
> >> I clear the RAM that was used?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> ~ Ari
> >> English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a
> >> bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> ~ Ari
> English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a
> bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.
>
>
>