Issue #9137 has been updated by sam.saffron (Sam Saffron).


sorry, had to squash my patch and remove a printf ... it is now at: https://github.com/SamSaffron/ruby/commit/b60d32ad1da648a305b54859c300927603026db9
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Bug #9137: RUBY_FREE_MIN is not enforced correctly
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9137#change-43068

Author: sam.saffron (Sam Saffron)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: 2.1.0
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN


At the moment setting RUBY_FREE_MIN does not work as expected:

All it does is cause heap_set_increment to be triggered more aggressively. heap_set_increment totally ignores it. The end result is 


sam@ubuntu:~/Source/ruby$ RUBY_FREE_MIN=$(( 408*1000 )) ruby -e "GC.start; p GC.count; (800*408).times{ '' }; p GC.count"
5
12

So the GC ran 7 times even though we *should* have heap space to fit the free min. 

With this patch: https://github.com/SamSaffron/ruby/commit/b84e11c85b9fcde65dfc9347427e720307ef5a62 we can correct the behavior

sam@ubuntu:~/Source/ruby$ RUBY_FREE_MIN=$(( 408*1000 )) ruby -e "GC.start; p GC.count; (800*408).times{ '' }; p GC.count"
5
5






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