From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-01-14T06:09:16+09:00
Subject: Re: WIN32OLE memory leaks


On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:49 AM, brabuhr@gmail.com wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Chuck Remes  
> <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Luis Lavena wrote:
>>> On Jan 12, 6:19 pm, Chuck Remes <cremes.devl...@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.
>>>
>>> Please include exact and complete version of Ruby you're using  
>>> (ruby -
>>> v) and under which Windows flavor.
>>
>> Here's some code. This is running against 1.8.6-p383 (from
>> rubyinstaller.org) on Windows XP SP3 plus all the latest patches  
>> (Windows
>> Update runs weekly).
>
> Are you able to do a test run with another ruby build, e.g.  
> 1.8.7/1.9.1 from:
>    http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

Running it with 1.9.1-p243 had the same results. I couldn't figure out  
how to install the "one-click" installers from the main ruby page. I  
kept getting regular zip files that didn't have any installation  
script. (Perhaps I just couldn't find it.)

>
> You see the same behavior even skipping the interaction with mongo?
>

I ran these tests without having mongo loaded at all (I commented out  
that code). The leak remains.

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