From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2010-01-13T07:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] WIN32OLE memory leaks

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote:
> 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.

Some code might be helpful (and maybe a reference to the old article
that you think is the same issue?)

(but, I don't have a Windows box to test it on for you anyways)

Would it be possible to run each batch in a new ruby process?