# Aws/s3 0.1.2 (point release) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 2, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aws-s3-0-1-2-point-release/77984 "2006-12-02T04:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Molina\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Marcel\_Molina\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcel_Molina_Jr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aws-s3-0-1-2-point-release/77984/1 "2006-12-02T04:34:34Z")
A memory leak was discovered in the parsing code of aws/s3. The culprit was a bit of code that used the generator library which is implemented with continuations. This (unnecessarily) fancy code was replaced with a simple, straight forward case statement. This not only got rid of the memory leak, but (since continuations are quite slow) sped up the unit tests from 8 seconds to 0.3 seconds. The 0.1.2 point release fixes this memory leak. You should be able to just ‘sudo gem update aws-s3’ to get the fix. Big thanks to Remco van’t Veer ([http://blog.remvee.net/](http://blog.remvee.net/)) for reporting the bug and providing a lot of useful information as well as a script which demonstrated the problem. marcel ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Molina\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Marcel\_Molina\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcel_Molina_Jr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aws-s3-0-1-2-point-release/77984/2 "2006-12-02T05:44:42Z")
On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Marcel Molina Jr. wrote: > A memory leak was discovered in the parsing code of aws/s3. The > culprit was a > bit of code that used the generator library which is implemented with > continuations. Generator was redone to use threads a while back, wasn’t it? Was this not backported to the 1.8 branch? James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Molina\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Marcel\_Molina\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcel_Molina_Jr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aws-s3-0-1-2-point-release/77984/3 "2006-12-02T06:12:46Z")
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:43:12PM +0900, James Edward G. II wrote: > On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Marcel Molina Jr. wrote: > > > A memory leak was discovered in the parsing code of aws/s3. The > > culprit was a > > bit of code that used the generator library which is implemented with > > continuations. > > Generator was redone to use threads a while back, wasn’t it? Was > this not backported to the 1.8 branch? marcel:/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8% which ruby /opt/local/bin/ruby marcel:/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8% ruby -v ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.5.2] marcel:/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8% grep Thread generator.rb marcel:/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8% Doesn’t look like it. Don’t have the source of 1.8.5 handy ATM. marcel ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Molina\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Marcel\_Molina\_Jr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcel_Molina_Jr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aws-s3-0-1-2-point-release/77984/4 "2006-12-02T06:24:48Z")
On 12/2/06, Marcel Molina Jr. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-darwin8.5.2] > marcel:/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8% grep Thread generator.rb > marcel:/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8% > > Doesn’t look like it. > > Don’t have the source of 1.8.5 handy ATM. Just installed stable-snapshot a few hours ago: Mac-mini:~ frank$ cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/ Mac-mini:/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 frank$ grep Thread generator.rb Mac-mini:/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 frank$ /usr/local/bin/ruby -v ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-01 patchlevel 5000) [powerpc-darwin8.8.0]