From: Amit Tomar <amittomer25@...>
Date: 2010-09-26T14:36:09+09:00
Subject: Re: how do i force ruby to release memory

Walton Hoops wrote:
> On 9/24/2010 10:41 PM, Amit Tomar wrote:
>>
>> 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.

yaa walton , i already tried with @stream=nil but i have same situation 
with memory,ruby is still holding memory and also trying to use GC.start 
but of no use

What should i do now ???
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