From: Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T23:37:39+09:00
Subject: Memory concerns wrt garbage collection etc

Hello,

I have a script which basically launches several threads, each of them
parsing a web page from a different link using Hpricot. I am not sure
how many threads get spawned, could be in the hundreds. The question I
have is, assuming we have a simple scenario where:

doc=Hpricot.new(open("http://somewhere/"))
# a bunch of processing
doc=Hpricot.new(open("http://somewhere.else/"))
# some more processing here.


When does the memory from the first instance get released? As soon as
no references point to that chunk of memory or right at the end of the
scope of wherever that object was instantiated?

Can someone please tell me as I have to my script running for months
perhaps and I don't know if its going to sit there eating memory for
no reason :)

Thank you,

Jayanth