# Memory consumption

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memory-consumption/119550>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 7, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memory-consumption/119550 "2007-11-07T21:54:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memory-consumption/119550/1 "2007-11-07T21:54:31Z")

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So…does anyone find it odd that running a rails console uses 80MB of  
memory? Why so much? I profile it and it says ‘yep you have 300000  
strings’ but…I’m not doing anything too weird–what gives? Dike can’t  
even find where all the strings are being created (though a good chunk  
of them are created in activesupport/dependencies/new\_constants\_in  
(discovered using a nice commercial tool [softwareverify.com](http://softwareverify.com) which trial  
version expires soon).  
Any thoughts?  
Thanks.