From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-01-06T18:46:55+09:00
Subject: Re: simple garbage problem

cchayden.nyt@gmail.com wrote:
> 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?

Might be worth trying on JRuby. We've had no such reports, and the 
garbage collector is rock-solid.

- Charlie