From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-08-06T17:36:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How to reclaim memory without GC.start [Using up massive amounts of RAM]

2007/8/6, Ari Brown <ari@aribrown.com>:
> Finally! I've been waiting for someone to resurrect this thread.
>
> Ok. I've decided that if a program consumes ALL of a computer's
> available memory (free, inactive), then GC.start is run, it will be
> able to free all that RAM.
>
> I have done several scientific tests with this on World of Warcraft
> (heh. work on WoW) and image rendering.
>
> So what's the best way to consume all of a computer's RAM? I've been
> toying with the idea of massive variable generation, but i think that
> might be a bit difficult.
>
> So what do you all think?

I'm not sure what you're after. Consuming memory is easy. For example:

a=[];a << " "*1024 while true

Or, a bit more involved

Chain = Struct.new :data, :next
c = nil
c = Chain.new("."*1024, c) while true

Kind regards

robert