From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2010-01-16T03:28:43+09:00
Subject: Re: WIN32OLE memory leaks

Jan 13, 2010, Chuck Remes:
> Jan 13, 2010, brabuhr@gmail.com:
>> Jan 13, 2010, Chuck Remes:
>>> Jan 12, 2010, Luis Lavena:
>>>> Jan 12, 2010, Chuck Remes:
>>>>> 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.

IronRuby 0.9 appears to have added Win32OLE:
http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/08/ironruby-09-released.html#win32ole