From: Jens Nissen <frodo.hobbit@...>
Date: 2001-12-17T20:36:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28753] Re: Constant loss of memory with Kernel::load in a loop

"Michael Neumann" <neumann@s-direktnet.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20011217114944.B399@michael.neumann.all...
>
> I don't know, but maybe it's the method you declare in loadit.rb?
> Does Ruby free overwritten methods?
> To make this sure, simply load an empty file in the while-loop and test
> again.
>

You can reduce "loadit.rb" to something like

# loadit.rb
# endof loadit.rb

and the problem remains the same.
It has to be something with the actual representation of the loaded program
in memory.
If there is no such file to load, the problem does not appear:

# demo-no.rb tries to load non-existing file "noload.rb"
counter = 0
while TRUE
        begin
                counter = counter + 1
                puts "Round #{counter}" if (counter.modulo(100) == 0)
                GC.start if (counter.modulo(500) == 0)
                load "noload.rb"
        rescue Exception
                retry
        end
end
# end of demo-no.rb

Thanks anyhow,

Jens