From: cchayden.nyt@...
Date: 2009-01-02T17:10:29+09:00
Subject: simple garbage problem

When I run the program:

STDIN.each_line { |line| line.split("\t") }

with a big input file, the process size grows rapidly, reaching 1G in
less than 1 minute.
If I let it go, it continues to grow at this rate until the whole
system fails.
This is ruby 1.8.6 on fedora 9.

Is this a known problem?
Is there some way to work around it?