From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-16T07:34:10+09:00
Subject: Re: memory usage question

In article <87elkrnvzl.fsf@paradoxical.net>,
Josh Huber  <huber@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
>ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:
>
>> I tried it under ruby 1.6.4 on Linux and monitored it with top.  The
>> peak usage I saw was around 260MB and it took a little over 10
>> minutes to complete on my Duron 800.
>
>Hmm, tried it here as well:
>
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>Mem:        639320     318556     320764          0        352      67248
>-/+ buffers/cache:     250956     388364
>Swap:       999992      22160     977832
>
>on a dual 500 g4 system running linux, peak memory usage was at about
>300M, and it completed in 1:02...
>

Where can I get one of those cheap?  ;-)  (although, the fact that you 
have dual g4's isn't doing anything for your speed in this case since 
there is no threading going on - and even if there were Ruby doesn't take 
advantage of native threading).  

>after reading the thread, it sounds more like a cygwin problem...
>
I suspect it is too... We're blaming a lot of things on cygwin lately, but 
then again it has proven to be the culprit in many cases.

Phil