# Rbx.exe hits 3GB memory usage during "rake test" **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [April 26, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rbx-exe-hits-3gb-memory-usage-during-rake-test/135948 "2008-04-26T20:35:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Paul_Batum)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rbx-exe-hits-3gb-memory-usage-during-rake-test/135948/1 "2008-04-26T20:35:23Z")
Hi there, Today I decided to take a look at IronRuby. I pulled the source down as demonstrated in the video, followed the build instructions on the wiki, and then ran the unit tests using the command ‘rake test’. After letting it execute for a minute or two, I noticed no new results were appearing, my system was no longer responding properly and the rbx.exe process was using approximately 3GB of memory. I killed it, and this is is what was in the console buffer: repro: (a,b),c = \*[nil] nil; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = \*[1] 1; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = _[1,2] 1; nil; 2; repro: (a,b),c = 1,_[2,3] 1; nil; 2; repro: (a,b),c = _[[]] nil; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = 1,_[] 1; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = [1,2],3 1; 2; 3; repro: (a,b),c = nil,1 nil; nil; 1; rake aborted! I’m running 64-bit Vista. I did a ‘gem update’ before building the source. ruby -v gives me: ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] After it happened the first time, I deleted my entire local copy of the source, pulled it all down again and then got the exact same result. I was wondering whether anyone has come across this before or has any suggestions. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Paul_Batum)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rbx-exe-hits-3gb-memory-usage-during-rake-test/135948/2 "2008-04-26T21:42:20Z")
I just ran rake test and didn’t get the same result. rbx never took more then 50 megs of ram, but the process ended with the error below after running for a few minutes. I’m on the same version of Ruby as you, but running 32 bit Windows 2k3 Standard. What version is your pathname2 gem (I think that’s the only gem that’s required, and I know there are version problems there). I’m on 1.5.2. Did you try rake spec as well? :0:in `do_generate': undefined local variable or method`methods’ for main:Objec t (NoMethodError) from :0:in `#block162' from c:\IronRuby\src\IronRuby.Libraries\Extensions\IListOps.cs:785:in`E ach’ from :0:in `Initialize##1’rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [“c:\ironruby\build\debug\rbx.exe” "test\_eh…] C:/IronRuby/rakefile:196 (See full trace by running task with --trace) C:\IronRuby\> ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Paul_Batum)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rbx-exe-hits-3gb-memory-usage-during-rake-test/135948/3 "2008-04-26T22:43:35Z")
Sorry about the experience - I haven’t been using rake test as a part of our test matrix for some time now - I’ll update the tests and the Rakefile in the next release. In the meantime, the most comprehensive way of running tests are the community-produced specs. You can run these via: rake spec - - coverage This will give you an indication of the pass / fail rate of the specs which can be found under tests\ironruby\specs\core\*\* Thanks, -John From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Aaron Junod Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:41 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] rbx.exe hits 3GB memory usage during “rake test” I just ran rake test and didn’t get the same result. rbx never took more then 50 megs of ram, but the process ended with the error below after running for a few minutes. I’m on the same version of Ruby as you, but running 32 bit Windows 2k3 Standard. What version is your pathname2 gem (I think that’s the only gem that’s required, and I know there are version problems there). I’m on 1.5.2.[http://1.5.2.](http://1.5.2.) Did you try rake spec as well? :0:in `do_generate': undefined local variable or method `methods’ for main:Objec t (NoMethodError) from :0:in `#block162' from c:\IronRuby\src\IronRuby.Libraries\Extensions\IListOps.cs:785:in `E ach’ from :0:in `Initialize##1’rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [“c:\ironruby\build\debug\rbx.exe” "test\_eh…] C:/IronRuby/rakefile:196 (See full trace by running task with --trace) C:\IronRuby\> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Paul Batum \ wrote: Hi there, Today I decided to take a look at IronRuby. I pulled the source down as demonstrated in the video, followed the build instructions on the wiki, and then ran the unit tests using the command ‘rake test’. After letting it execute for a minute or two, I noticed no new results were appearing, my system was no longer responding properly and the rbx.exe process was using approximately 3GB of memory. I killed it, and this is is what was in the console buffer: repro: (a,b),c = \*[nil] nil; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = \*[1] 1; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = _[1,2] 1; nil; 2; repro: (a,b),c = 1,_[2,3] 1; nil; 2; repro: (a,b),c = _[[]] nil; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = 1,_[] 1; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = [1,2],3 1; 2; 3; repro: (a,b),c = nil,1 nil; nil; 1; rake aborted! I’m running 64-bit Vista. I did a ‘gem update’ before building the source. ruby -v gives me: ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] After it happened the first time, I deleted my entire local copy of the source, pulled it all down again and then got the exact same result. I was wondering whether anyone has come across this before or has any suggestions. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Paul_Batum)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rbx-exe-hits-3gb-memory-usage-during-rake-test/135948/4 "2008-04-27T04:12:16Z")
After lurking on these forums for a while, and getting myself up to speed on where the project is, I’d like to see if I can lend a hand by contributing to the project. I’ve taken care of getting the contributor agreement squared away, so now I’m looking for some recommendations on what could use some attention. Is there a list of prioritized “items” that would benefit from some community love? Cheers, Steve ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@Paul\_Batum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Paul_Batum)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rbx-exe-hits-3gb-memory-usage-during-rake-test/135948/5 "2008-04-27T03:08:34Z")
I know about this issue, it’s a bug in IronRuby that leads to massive memory leaks. I think it could be that 64bit pointers are just twice as big so it consumes even more memory there. Will get to fixing it soon. Tomas From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of John L. (IRONRUBY) Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:43 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] rbx.exe hits 3GB memory usage during “rake test” Sorry about the experience - I haven’t been using rake test as a part of our test matrix for some time now - I’ll update the tests and the Rakefile in the next release. In the meantime, the most comprehensive way of running tests are the community-produced specs. You can run these via: rake spec - - coverage This will give you an indication of the pass / fail rate of the specs which can be found under tests\ironruby\specs\core\*\* Thanks, -John From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Aaron Junod Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:41 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] rbx.exe hits 3GB memory usage during “rake test” I just ran rake test and didn’t get the same result. rbx never took more then 50 megs of ram, but the process ended with the error below after running for a few minutes. I’m on the same version of Ruby as you, but running 32 bit Windows 2k3 Standard. What version is your pathname2 gem (I think that’s the only gem that’s required, and I know there are version problems there). I’m on 1.5.2.[http://1.5.2.](http://1.5.2.) Did you try rake spec as well? :0:in `do_generate': undefined local variable or method `methods’ for main:Objec t (NoMethodError) from :0:in `#block162' from c:\IronRuby\src\IronRuby.Libraries\Extensions\IListOps.cs:785:in `E ach’ from :0:in `Initialize##1’rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [“c:\ironruby\build\debug\rbx.exe” "test\_eh…] C:/IronRuby/rakefile:196 (See full trace by running task with --trace) C:\IronRuby\> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Paul Batum \ wrote: Hi there, Today I decided to take a look at IronRuby. I pulled the source down as demonstrated in the video, followed the build instructions on the wiki, and then ran the unit tests using the command ‘rake test’. After letting it execute for a minute or two, I noticed no new results were appearing, my system was no longer responding properly and the rbx.exe process was using approximately 3GB of memory. I killed it, and this is is what was in the console buffer: repro: (a,b),c = \*[nil] nil; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = \*[1] 1; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = _[1,2] 1; nil; 2; repro: (a,b),c = 1,_[2,3] 1; nil; 2; repro: (a,b),c = _[[]] nil; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = 1,_[] 1; nil; nil; repro: (a,b),c = [1,2],3 1; 2; 3; repro: (a,b),c = nil,1 nil; nil; 1; rake aborted! I’m running 64-bit Vista. I did a ‘gem update’ before building the source. ruby -v gives me: ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] After it happened the first time, I deleted my entire local copy of the source, pulled it all down again and then got the exact same result. I was wondering whether anyone has come across this before or has any suggestions. Cheers!