From: ruby rails <bagam_venkat@...>
Date: 2008-03-21T14:43:17+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question regarding memory leak

Atlast I figured it out. Rather than declaring @agent as an instance 
variable, i tried declaring it as a local variable and that does the 
trick. Previously it used to eat up 400-500 MB of memory but now, it 
uses a max of 15 MB.

I modified my code from

def initialize
   @agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
end

def fetch_links(start, finish, count)
   page = WWW::Mechanize::Page
   ........
   ........
end

to look like below

def initialize

end

def fetch_links(start, finish, count)
   agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
   page = WWW::Mechanize::Page
end

Any interpretations from this?
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