From: Walton Hoops <me@...>
Date: 2010-09-25T14:20:32+09:00
Subject: Re: how do i force ruby to release memory

 On 9/24/2010 10:41 PM, Amit Tomar wrote:
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> but Ryan how do i force it to release memory???
You don't.  You remove the reference by setting @stream=nil, and the
Garbage Collector will release the memory when it gets around to it. 
Note there are no guarantees about when the GC will run, or what it will
free when it does, so it's not like you will see the memory drop
immediately when you set @stream to nil, in fact it's very likely that
it won't get run until the interpreter tries to allocate the next chunk
of memory for the next 1G object.