From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-01-13T06:19:43+09:00
Subject: [Q] WIN32OLE memory leaks

In my ruby code I am making a call out to a COM object that is  
returning an array of objects. I extract some information from these  
objects and then request a new batch to do the same work all over again.

Even though I am clearing the received array out, my program slowly  
leaks memory until it hits its limit (around 1.4 GB on Windows) and  
dies.

I have tried adding my_object.ole_free calls everywhere, but that has  
not helped at all. I've looked through the archives (back to 2004) and  
saw that this was a common issue years ago. I had hoped it would be  
fixed by now.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to force these unused objects  
to get GC'ed? This program needs to run a long time so a memory leak  
is absolutely fatal.

cr