On 15-Feb-08, at 7:53 PM, Tom Werner wrote:

Here's a test case that demonstrates what is surely a bug. If you  
want, you can post on ruby-talk or someplace more efficient to get  
some attention and a fix. Make sure you post the test case.

module Play
  class Toy
    def peek_at_proc
      puts `ps u -p #{Process.pid}`
    end

    def base_name
      #x = 1 # <<<<<< REMOVE COMMENT TO FIX MEM LEAK
      "a,b".split(',')
    end

    def test
      peek_at_proc

      1000000.times do
        base_name
      end

      peek_at_proc
    end
  end
end

Play::Toy.new.test