module GC
The GC
module provides an interface to Ruby’s mark and sweep garbage collection mechanism.
Some of the underlying methods are also available via the ObjectSpace
module.
You may obtain information about the operation of the GC
through GC::Profiler
.
Constants
- INTERNAL_CONSTANTS
internal constants
- OPTS
GC
build options
Public Class Methods
Raises NoMemoryError
when allocating an instance of the given classes.
static VALUE rb_gcdebug_add_stress_to_class(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self) { rb_objspace_t *objspace = &rb_objspace; if (!stress_to_class) { stress_to_class = rb_ary_tmp_new(argc); } rb_ary_cat(stress_to_class, argv, argc); return self; }
Returns whether or not automatic compaction has been enabled.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 46 def self.auto_compact Primitive.gc_get_auto_compact end
Updates automatic compaction mode.
When enabled, the compactor will execute on every major collection.
Enabling compaction will degrade performance on major collections.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 58 def self.auto_compact=(flag) Primitive.gc_set_auto_compact(flag) end
This function compacts objects together in Ruby’s heap. It eliminates unused space (or fragmentation) in the heap by moving objects in to that unused space. This function returns a hash which contains statistics about which objects were moved. See ‘GC.latest_gc_info` for details about compaction statistics.
This method is implementation specific and not expected to be implemented in any implementation besides MRI.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 212 def self.compact Primitive.gc_compact end
Disables garbage collection, returning true
if garbage collection was already disabled.
GC.disable #=> false GC.disable #=> true
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 84 def self.disable Primitive.gc_disable end
Enables garbage collection, returning true
if garbage collection was previously disabled.
GC.disable #=> false GC.enable #=> true GC.enable #=> false
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 72 def self.enable Primitive.gc_enable end
Returns information about object moved in the most recent GC compaction.
The returned hash has two keys :considered and :moved. The hash for :considered lists the number of objects that were considered for movement by the compactor, and the :moved hash lists the number of objects that were actually moved. Some objects can’t be moved (maybe they were pinned) so these numbers can be used to calculate compaction efficiency.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 197 def self.latest_compact_info Primitive.gc_compact_stats end
Returns information about the most recent garbage collection.
If the optional argument, hash, is given, it is overwritten and returned. This is intended to avoid probe effect.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 183 def self.latest_gc_info hash_or_key = nil Primitive.gc_latest_gc_info hash_or_key end
Returns the size of memory allocated by malloc().
Only available if ruby was built with CALC_EXACT_MALLOC_SIZE
.
static VALUE gc_malloc_allocated_size(VALUE self) { return UINT2NUM(rb_objspace.malloc_params.allocated_size); }
Returns the number of malloc() allocations.
Only available if ruby was built with CALC_EXACT_MALLOC_SIZE
.
static VALUE gc_malloc_allocations(VALUE self) { return UINT2NUM(rb_objspace.malloc_params.allocations); }
No longer raises NoMemoryError
when allocating an instance of the given classes.
static VALUE rb_gcdebug_remove_stress_to_class(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self) { rb_objspace_t *objspace = &rb_objspace; int i; if (stress_to_class) { for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i) { rb_ary_delete_same(stress_to_class, argv[i]); } if (RARRAY_LEN(stress_to_class) == 0) { stress_to_class = 0; } } return Qnil; }
Initiates garbage collection, even if manually disabled.
This method is defined with keyword arguments that default to true:
def GC.start(full_mark: true, immediate_sweep: true); end
Use full_mark: false to perform a minor GC
. Use immediate_sweep: false to defer sweeping (use lazy sweep).
Note: These keyword arguments are implementation and version dependent. They are not guaranteed to be future-compatible, and may be ignored if the underlying implementation does not support them.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 33 def self.start full_mark: true, immediate_mark: true, immediate_sweep: true Primitive.gc_start_internal full_mark, immediate_mark, immediate_sweep, false end
Returns a Hash
containing information about the GC
.
The hash includes information about internal statistics about GC
such as:
{ :count=>0, :heap_allocated_pages=>24, :heap_sorted_length=>24, :heap_allocatable_pages=>0, :heap_available_slots=>9783, :heap_live_slots=>7713, :heap_free_slots=>2070, :heap_final_slots=>0, :heap_marked_slots=>0, :heap_eden_pages=>24, :heap_tomb_pages=>0, :total_allocated_pages=>24, :total_freed_pages=>0, :total_allocated_objects=>7796, :total_freed_objects=>83, :malloc_increase_bytes=>2389312, :malloc_increase_bytes_limit=>16777216, :minor_gc_count=>0, :major_gc_count=>0, :remembered_wb_unprotected_objects=>0, :remembered_wb_unprotected_objects_limit=>0, :old_objects=>0, :old_objects_limit=>0, :oldmalloc_increase_bytes=>2389760, :oldmalloc_increase_bytes_limit=>16777216 }
The contents of the hash are implementation specific and may be changed in the future.
If the optional argument, hash, is given, it is overwritten and returned. This is intended to avoid probe effect.
This method is only expected to work on C Ruby.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 169 def self.stat hash_or_key = nil Primitive.gc_stat hash_or_key end
Returns current status of GC
stress mode.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 92 def self.stress Primitive.gc_stress_get end
Updates the GC
stress mode.
When stress mode is enabled, the GC
is invoked at every GC
opportunity: all memory and object allocations.
Enabling stress mode will degrade performance, it is only for debugging.
flag can be true, false, or an integer bit-ORed following flags.
0x01:: no major GC 0x02:: no immediate sweep 0x04:: full mark after malloc/calloc/realloc
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 110 def self.stress=(flag) Primitive.gc_stress_set_m flag end
Verify compaction reference consistency.
This method is implementation specific. During compaction, objects that were moved are replaced with T_MOVED objects. No object should have a reference to a T_MOVED object after compaction.
This function doubles the heap to ensure room to move all objects, compacts the heap to make sure everything moves, updates all references, then performs a full GC
. If any object contains a reference to a T_MOVED object, that object should be pushed on the mark stack, and will make a SEGV.
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 230 def self.verify_compaction_references(toward: nil, double_heap: false) Primitive.gc_verify_compaction_references(double_heap, toward == :empty) end
Verify internal consistency.
This method is implementation specific. Now this method checks generational consistency if RGenGC is supported.
static VALUE gc_verify_internal_consistency_m(VALUE dummy) { gc_verify_internal_consistency(&rb_objspace); return Qnil; }
static VALUE gc_verify_transient_heap_internal_consistency(VALUE dmy) { rb_transient_heap_verify(); return Qnil; }
Public Instance Methods
# File ruby_3_0_5/gc.rb, line 37 def garbage_collect full_mark: true, immediate_mark: true, immediate_sweep: true Primitive.gc_start_internal full_mark, immediate_mark, immediate_sweep, false end