From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T06:45:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Chasing a garbage collection bug

Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
>>Are there any special GC-related bug finding techniques that are worth
>>mentioning?
> 
> 
> For starters, is there a way to make the GC print some information about the
> object it reaps?

I wrote a GC debugging patch for the opposite problem (trying to find 
why GC wasn't freeing an object that I though it should). Also, it's for 
1.6.7 and 1.7.2. But it may be some help.

http://redshift.sourceforge.net/debugging-GC/

See also

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?GCAndMemoryManagement

which would be a good place to make a note of any solution you find.