# Memory leaks with ruby-prof 0.6.0 on Ruby 1.9 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 13, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memory-leaks-with-ruby-prof-0-6-0-on-ruby-1-9/129045 "2008-02-13T20:04:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shot\_SPiotr\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Shot\_SPiotr\_S.S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Shot_SPiotr_S.S)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/memory-leaks-with-ruby-prof-0-6-0-on-ruby-1-9/129045/1 "2008-02-13T20:04:29Z")
Hello, good folks of ruby-talk. I’m running into memory leaking issues when trying to profile my code with ruby-prof 0.6.0 on Ruby 1.9. Two scenarios, in which 1.8 is Ubuntu’s packaged Ruby 1.8.6.p111, while 1.9 is hand-compiled Ruby 1.9.0.r14709. ruby-prof 0.6.0 from RubyGems in both cases. Memory usage reported with the proprietary, highly scientific method of Looking at Live Htop Changes in Memory Usage for the Whole Systemâ„¢. Times are time’s real/user, the ruby-prof’s printer is graph\_html. Ruby 1.8: - the code ran with plain Ruby executes in 1m41s/1m22s, the memory consumption stays below 300 MiB. - the code ran with ruby-prof executes in 4m35s/2m49s, the memory consumption stays below 320 MiB. Ruby 1.9: - the code ran with plain Ruby executes in 0m30s/0m30s, the memory consumption stays below 310 MiB. - the code ran with ruby-prof executes in… well, I stopped the execution when the memory consumption passed my laptop’s 1 GiB and made a 350 MiB dent at my temp partition. Are there any known memory issues with ruby-prof 0.6.0 on Ruby 1.9? Unfortunately, the code under profiling being the code behind my PhD, I can’t currently open source it (I will once my research is complete); I can send it to people off-list (provided it doesn’t get shared further). Thanks in advance for any comments/ideas. – Shot