From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-12-16T00:22:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Debug IRB session

Robert Gleeson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently IRB has been leaking memory until it consumes all I have
> available(8GB).

> Is there anything I can do to debug the problem so I can file a bug
> report & hopefully fix the issue?

http://timetobleed.com/memprof-a-ruby-level-memory-profiler/
valgrind
come to mind.

Unfortunately that's for 1.8.7 only.  I could hack you up a version of 
1.9 that has something like

GC.each_object{|o|
 >> o.where_created
 => [filename, line]
}

if desired for profiling purposes.

-r
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