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maxday
maxday

Reputation: 1342

no memory error, failed to allocate memory

I'm new in Ruby On Rails but each time I make a mistake (in a function for instance), my computer (xubuntu 10.10) totally freezes.

Actually I can't do anything except waiting and I finally got an "No memory error -> failed to allocate memory" error after 5 or 10 minutes.

I use rails 3 and mongoDB.

I'm developping from an existing project with many gems, is there any consequences ?

Thank you !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4372

Answers (2)

Anatoly
Anatoly

Reputation: 15530

  1. Update your Ruby version
  2. Run memtest to perform hardware memory test

Upvotes: 1

kain
kain

Reputation: 5570

Possible diagnosis:

  • you are using Ruby installed from ubuntu packages
  • you have bad physical ram

These days it's good practice to install your rubies through RVM: http://beginrescueend.com/

If you want to test if you RAM is bad try memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/

I'd go with installing RVM.

Upvotes: 2

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