From: Ray Chen <ray.c.chen@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T15:58:12+09:00
Subject: REXML memory consumption

My process memory usage has been increasing steadily, and some probing
pointed me to REXML.  I created a test that consisted of feeding 10 xml
files ranging in size from 15kB to 270kB to REXML::Document.new().  The
files are fed smallest to largest.  I would think that memory usage
should return back to ~8 MB since the REXML::Document should go out of
scope, and everything should get garbage-collected.

Is there something wrong with my understanding of Ruby or does REXML
hold onto memory?

===Memory Usage===
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
ray      26354  0.0  0.2  20724  7920 pts/9    S+   22:46   0:00 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354  0.0  0.2  20912  7988 pts/9    S+   22:46   0:00 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354 18.0  0.3  24000 11044 pts/9    S+   22:46   0:00 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354 31.0  0.4  27696 14772 pts/9    S+   22:46   0:00 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354 44.0  0.5  28752 15812 pts/9    S+   22:46   0:00 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354 62.0  0.5  28916 15944 pts/9    S+   22:46   0:00 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354 88.0  0.6  34204 21144 pts/9    R+   22:46   0:00 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354 57.5  0.7  37236 24272 pts/9    R+   22:46   0:01 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354 73.5  0.8  38816 25920 pts/9    R+   22:46   0:01 ruby
mem_test2.rb
ray      26354 96.0  0.9  42900 29720 pts/9    R+   22:46   0:01 ruby
mem_test2.rb


===Test Code===
require 'rexml/document'

def construct(i)
  #create the string
  f = File.open("/tmp/#{i}.xml", 'r')
  str = ''

  while line = f.gets
    str << line
  end
  f.close

  #construct the xml
  xml = REXML::Document.new(str)
  xml = nil

  return nil
end


puts 'USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
COMMAND'

for j in 1..10
  construct(j)
  GC.start
  puts `ps aux | grep 'ruby mem_test2' | grep -v grep`
end
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