From: Thomas Sondergaard Date: 2004-03-26T00:39:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Tempfile consuming a lot of memory > This is a good hint. Thomas, can you try this patch? Yes, it is much better. The footprint of my original application just went from 167MB to 11MB. A nice improvement :o) Will this fix be committed to CVS and be available from ruby 1.8.2? Cheers, Thomas