hmmmm, may i ask, in a very polite manner, if there are any known memory leaks in the ruby interpreter. maybe i'm wrong, but tracing memory leaks in my ruby extensions using the mtrace utility, it seems to me, that there are several small memory leaks in the ruby interpreter, sourced in the ruby_xmalloc routine in file gc.c. ciao h-d -- _____________________________________________________________________ Hans-Dieter Stich mail: hdstich / hdstich.com web: http://www.hdstich.com/ _____________________________________________________________________