From: Thomas Sondergaard <thomas@...>
Date: 2004-03-25T02:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Tempfile consuming a lot of memory



> Have you tried the same under Linux ?
> Maybe this can give us a clue what is wrong.

I have now:

 18:47:02  up 33 days, 23:19,  2 users,  load average: 1.38, 0.97, 0.43
58 processes: 57 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  11.3% user   4.7% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  83.8% idle
Mem:   223140k av,  220044k used,    3096k free,       0k shrd,     752k
buff
                    141028k actv,   29580k in_d,    3632k in_c
Swap:  457844k av,  231440k used,  226404k free                    4788k
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
26968 ts        15   0  272M 160M   500 D    11.1 73.6   1:16   0 ruby
26966 ts        15   0  4116 1052   500 S     0.0  0.4   0:03   0 emacs
27036 ts        15   0   976  840   684 R     0.5  0.3   0:00   0 top

I grew tired of waiting on it (my linux box only has 256 megs of memory)
when it had about 780 temporary files at which point the process was using
272MB of memory.

So it is pretty much the same on linux - not surprisingly.

I have made a few other experiments, including implementing my own TempFile2
class. If I use the same strategy as Tempfile and use a SimpleDelegator to
delegate to an instance of File I get the same memory consumption. I haven't
figured out why it is so..

Cheers,

Thomas