Robert Klemme wrote: > On 07/29/2010 10:16 AM, Tasos Laskos wrote: >>>> >>>> Thread.abort_on_exception = true >>>> >>>> Then you will probably see errors. > >> >> I can't believe all those hours of debugging went to waist. > > If it can happen once chances are that it will happen again. It's > probably worth to dig a bit and try to find out what caused the memory > issue in the first place. Maybe you have a leaky application. What OS > btw? > > Kind regards > > robert Well, the laptop was on for 2-3 days constantly running fullscreen flash video, eclipse, apache2 & mysql ( being constantly hammered by Arachni due to the debugging itself) and around 13 tabs of Firefox spread over several windows. So in hindsight it's not much of a surprise. I'm running the latest Kubuntu with Xfce, so I guess it has now become Xubuntu... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.