Hi,
I have a script that runs for a long time, and seems to use up a large chunk of memory, building up fairly quickly, but then never really going above 55% of the system memory. This is the basic structure of my script:
loop do Find.find(path) do |name| if FileTest.directory? name Find.prune unless name.eql? path else do_something_with_file end end sleep(0.05) end
Even when my do_something_with_file function is modified to simply return right away, the memory usage of the script continues to increase. Is there any issue with reading directories as I am above? Or is there a way to cap the amount of memory a script uses, or a way to force garbage collection?
Thanks,
Simon