From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2008-06-27T02:43:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads, Queues and possible memory leak

On 6/26/08, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:36 AM, hemant wrote:
>
>
> > I have also tried using 'dike', but couldn't get any meaningful dump (
> > Ara, may be you can throw some pointers).
> >
>
>  will dike you need at least two dumps and then take deltas.  typically
> you'd actually look at the deltas of deltas to see long term trends, which
> is a manual process.  do you mean you couldn't dump or that the dumps didn't
> make sense?
>

Well, i didn't get any dump at all. I got 0,1 files in log directory,
but they had nothing in it, except [] ( in one of them and other one
was empty). I will try sometime later today.


> If you think there's a 'real' memory leak then valgrind is your friend.
> Also trying ruby from svn might help [latest].

I have tried running with ruby1.9 trunk and leaks seems to occur
really slow. I mean, with some 150 thousand messages in queue, in
ruby1.8 memory shoots up to 400 MB, but with ruby1.9 it stays around
52MB.