From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-09-14T07:45:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Debugging garbage collection

Nathan Weston wrote:
> I have a Ruby program that seems to be leaking memory -- in the sense
> that objects which I think should be GCed aren't getting GCed (even if
> I call GC.start).
> Something must be keeping references to these objects, but I can't
> figure out what.
> 
> Are there any tools to debug this problem? Some way to watch the GC in
> operation, or to find references to a particular object (at runtime),
> would be helpful.

I'm not aware of any such GC debugging tools.

I guess the obvious question (to me) is: What behavior makes you think
that objects aren't getting collected?

Hal