From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-07-02T08:29:27+09:00
Subject: Re: 64-bit Ruby for OS X ?

On Jul 1, 2009, at 14:28, Jordon Bedwell wrote:

> I personally won't use anything that isn't under x64.  No offense to  
> people
> who are scared about memory usage but I prefer to be able to address  
> my
> 12GB+ of Ram on each of my servers without needing to hack my Kernel  
> for
> anything more than security, and speed.  I've had no problems with the
> memory the gentleman reported with memory consumption crawling on  
> OSX, BSD
> or Debian so perhaps it's just a bad compile in his behalf? Our  
> Daemons that
> monitor our main server would have caught a memory leak if it was  
> happening
> but they haven't yet and even on a check with the amount of hits we  
> get, our
> total memory usage for Ruby is only 1.5GB total for all 15 Processes  
> that
> run Ruby.

I don't understand what this is a response to from my instructions  
about how to compile ruby for 64-bit.