From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2011-10-07T08:47:26+09:00
Subject: Re: nethttp memory leak on long-running daemon

On Oct 6, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Roger Pack wrote:
>> Has anyone else experienced this problem and is willing and able to
>> provide a solution aside from using another scripting language to
>> achieve our goals?
> 
> I'm able to reproduce it.
> http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2009/10/02/we-finally-ditched-ruby-nethttp/ 
> may be helpful for a workaround.

Can either of you show code used to reproduce it and post to redmine?

The referenced blog post is two years old and mentions ruby 1.8.6.  Both ruby and net/http have changed since then.

PS: At work we use net/http to perform billions of HTTP requests per week without insane memory growth.  Without specific code that exhibits this behavior it will be difficult to track down.