I did not find ruby-prof very useful when it came to locating memory leaks, because you need a patched Ruby interpreter. Tracking object allocation has become easier in Ruby 2.1. Maybe it is the best choice to explore this yourself. I recommend the blog post Ruby 2.1: objspace.so by tmml who is one of the … Read more
To really drill into your code try out stackprof. Here’s a quick solution on how to use it: Install the gem: gem install stackprof. In your code add: require ‘stackprof’ and surround the part that you want to check with this: StackProf.run(mode: :cpu, out: ‘stackprof-output.dump’) do {YOUR_CODE} end After running your ruby script go check … Read more
Each section of the ruby-prof output is broken up into the examination of a particular function. for instance, look at the first section of your output. The read_frames method on FrameParser is the focus and it is basically saying the following: 100% of the execution time that was profiled was spent inside of FrameParser#read_frames FrameParser#read_frames … Read more