On 3/13/07, Caleb Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Balmain said: > > Running your test for 15 minutes my memory usage climbed to 30Mb. It > > was still slowly climbing which is not a good sign but not enough to > > bring my system to a halt. Anyway, I tried using valgrind's memcheck > > on it and I couldn't find a leak in the Ferret code. Perhaps it is a > > leak in your version of Ruby, although I doubt it. Here is the most > > significant output from valgrind with --show-reachable=yes set; > > Ok, so my ruby is version 1.8.2, kinda old, so maybe there is an old bug > in it. Recent experiments on another machine (running a newer ruby, > 1.8.5, I think) didn't seem to have the same memory leak. > > What version do you run, by the way?
I'm on 1.8.5. > > Incidentally, I'm not sure what the other bug you are chasing is but > > it may have something to do with the encoding of the man pages. I > > I know the man output is some encoding I don't understand; I'm just > trying to generate a lot of data to feed into ferret. I don't care if > it's correct. I'm still having quite a few crashes with ferret, though > the situation has improved. I'm trying to reproduce those without > handing you my entire codebase. So far, without success. :( Let me know when you do find the problem. It is possible that is has something to do with a mismatch of encodings. Feeding ISO-8859-1 data (which is what my man pages are encoded in) to a UTF-8 analyzer might cause Ferret to crash. I've tried to fix this so that it doesn't happen but I might have missed something. > > don't think they are UTF-8 so if your locale is set to UTF-8 it will > > cause some problems in the analysis. > > I know I'm not on the UTF-8 locale. Actually, I've been trying to figure > out how to set my locale to UTF-8. I don't suppose you'd know? I'm using > Debian stable. It's not too hard. Something like; $ sudo apt-get install debconf $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Cheers, Dave -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/ _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
