From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-06-21T12:15:39+09:00
Subject: Re: resolv.rb memory usage / core dumps

Hi,

At Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:37:47 +0900,
Brad Hilton wrote:
> In using resolv.rb (ruby 1.6.7) to do name lookups, I noticed that the
> classes UnconnectedUDP and ConnectedUDP create a new thread in
> ititialize().  They don't attempt to clean up the thread (or join() it),
> however, so the following script eats up lots of memory and eventually
> stalls:

Refer the thread from [ruby-talk:38525].

> -------------------
> loop {
> 	Resolv::DNS::Requester::UnconnectedUDP.new.cleanup
> }
> -------------------
> 
> after a few hundred objects get created, the script core dumps.

I couldn't reproduce it in 100,000 iterations, with latest
1.6.7 and CVS head.

-- 
Nobu Nakada