From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-01-16T06:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: WIN32OLE memory leaks

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On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:28 PM, brabuhr@gmail.com wrote:

> 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


I'll give ironruby a try on Monday when I get back into the office.  
Thanks for the pointer to it. I had completely forgotten about it.

cr


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