At 03:41 AM 3/25/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:40:50 +0000 >From: James Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Mongrel] mongrel garbage collection >To: mongrel-users@rubyforge.org >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >[snip] >Also, implicit OOMEs or GC runs quite often DO NOT affect the >extensions correctly. I don't know what rmagick is doing under the >hood in this area, but having been generating large portions of >country maps with it (and moving away from it very rapidly), I know >the GC doesn't do "The Right Thing". >[snip]
Hi James, My understanding with RMagick is that it is hooking the Imagemagick libs directly in process. As a result, memory is not always freed when you'd expect it to be. I haven't read up on the details, having chosen to just use out of process image management, but you might find this link interesting - in it, there is a claim that the latest releases of RMagick do *not* in fact leak any memory and that running a full GC manually will reclaim all memory it uses after the references are out of scope. http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1374&forum_id=1618 Steve _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
