From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2002-12-03T11:17:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Memory Profile


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Squidster (squidster@techie.com) wrote:

> Hello Rubyists,
> I'm writing quite a quiet a resource hungry program (current about
> 3300 lines of Ruby code).
>=20
> I think I've got the running time down to a reasonable level (of
> course CPU is 100% all the way), thanks to profile.rb and rbprof.rb!
>=20
> But when I look at top, memory consumption is crazy; it's about 2MB
> every second! On my 1GB system, it was swapping (thanks to the Linux
> kernel, still not thrashing) in about 10 minutes...

You mean memory consumption increases by 2MB/sec?  Perhaps you've
tickled a bug in a C extension that makes it leak...

> So my question: Anybody has built or know of a memory profiler in
> Ruby? Somewhat akin to profile.rb/rbprof.rb but for memory usage...

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