From: Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@...>
Date: 2001-12-17T22:04:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28759] Re: Constant loss of memory with Kernel::load in a loop

Hi Jens!
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:36:48PM +0900, Jens Nissen wrote:
> 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

Seems to be not Windows related.
This version leaks on Linux, too (1.6.5)

Hope that helps,
Martin.

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