Huge memory leak in benchmark.rb on converting to Rails 2.3.9

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Am relatively new to ruby/rails and very new to low level stuff like memory leaks.

Am trying to Rails 2.3.9 ( because of a compatibility issue with firewatir-1.6.6 ) and the mongrel process grows _very_ quickly as soon as it tries to render the page.

I've stepped into the code with Rubymine (ruby-debug-ide 0.4.6) and narrowed things down to line 51 of action_pack/lib/action_controller/ benchmark.rb:

@view_runtime = Benchmark.ms { render_output = render_without_benchmark(options, extra_options, &block) }

Things hang here and the task manager shows the mongrel process growing at roughly 40MB per second until I kill the process ( in Rubymine debug )

Apparently render_without_benchmark is having issues. And I'm having trouble locating the def for render_without_benchmark.

The only change is the shift to Rails 2.3.9 The application is built with these components:

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] rails 2.3.5 watir 1.6.6 authlogic-2.1.3 bones-3.4.1 google-spreadsheet-ruby-0.1.1 mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60 json-1.2.2 rack-1.0.1 roo-1.9.3 rufus-scheduler-2.0.6 spreadsheet-0.6.4.1 watirloo-0.0.8

The app also uses jquery and a number of YUI scripts

Hoping for help.

pat

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Update: Had missed changing environment.rb to specify Rails 2.3.9.

Still having similar problem but the leak is only 3-4MB per second... :wink: Will keep looking to see what else I have missed.

Any suggestions would be most, most welcome!

pat