From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-14T11:57:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Debugging garbage collection

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 07:41:38 +0900, 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.

I don't know that I can help you figure out "what" has references, but why 
not use ObjectSpace to see what's alive at a particular point in time?

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.09.13
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