Btw ruby 2 4 1 has a known memory leak so you may want to upgrade if you are using this specific version.
Ruby memory leak.
December 15 2011.
This pass the result to a form.
If you have any interesting battle stories or tools i have forgotten to mention you would like to share please post a comment.
Prior to ruby 2 1 the best we could do was crawl our object space grab a snapshot wait a bit grab a second snapshot and compare.
Unlike unmanaged memory leaks tackling managed leaks is very straight forward.
5 debugging memory leaks.
If you are hunting a simple memory leak in ruby i recommend my earlier article from 2015 most of it still holds.
Reviewing the free memory analysis tools for mri and jruby and mentioning rubinius jonathan wallace.
Now you know what a memory leak looks like hopefully that will help you find one faster if you ever have this issue.
How to debug profile ruby.
Valgrind is an application for detecting c based memory leaks and race conditions.
Comparing to webrick it eats 100 more resources.
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Do you have any questions feedback or an interesting memory leak debugging story.
Prints memory leak information.
Debugging memory leaks in ruby jonathan wallace december 15 2011 programming 3 380.
If you believe your application has a memory leak you can test this out.
The new tooling in ruby 2 1 and up makes debugging these leaks a breeze.
I hope that next time you are stuck debugging a complex native memory leak you have an easier time.
In this section you will learn how to find and fix such leaks by using tool such as valgrind.
Audit a project s gemfile lock.
There are few tools available however none of them works with native mri ruby 1 9 3p194.
Thin web server is actually a big memory consumer it is not thin anymore.
Is there an obvious.
To simply print the current ruby script memory usage in the system you can use this function.
Most applications that have memory problems are defined as having a memory leak however if you let those applications run for a long enough period of time the memory use will level out.
Make sure memory leaks are not in your gem dependencies.
Debugging memory leaks in ruby.
Checks for memory leaks of gems in gemfile lock.
Here the memory usage happens.
This is a parser that gem some html pages and scrape them but it eat a lot of memory not being garbage collected.
