From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-07-04T06:49:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection

Brett Simmers wrote:
> I know that the garbage collector will start when more memory is 
> needed, but will it also start after the program has been running for 
> a long period of time?  I have a daemon written in Ruby that's been 
> running for about 8 days now, and its memory usage has increased by 
> about 1MB per day.  It's up to 39MB by now which isn't bad, but if 
> this trend continues it could get ugly after a few weeks.  What I 
> don't know is if it's actually using all that memory or if it just 
> hasn't run the GC yet because the usage is still fairly low.  I'm sure 
> it wouldn't be hard to test this by putting a few calls to GC.start in 
> the code and restarting it, but I'd really like to avoid restarting it 
> if possible.  Does anyone know which conditions will trigger the GC 
> other than malloc failing?
> Brett
>
This article may help.

http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/theFullyUpturnedBin.html

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