GC Tune Ruby 1.9.2 With RVM
Here is a gist by Sokolov Yura (funny-falcon) that allows you to GC tune Ruby 1.9.2 just like Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE). So all of us using RVM have no reason not start using this right away. Here are the steps.
$ curl https://gist.github.com/raw/856296/patch-1.9.2-gc.patch > ~/192-gc.patch
$ rvm uninstall 1.9.2
$ rvm install 1.9.2 --patch ~/192-gc.patch
I have used this RVM hook below for awhile now. It automatically sets and unsets the proper ENV vars to GC tunes my REE. I have now updated it to apply the same GC settings to my newly patched 1.9.2 as well. I recommend this go into ~/.rvm/hooks/after_use.
case "$rvm_ruby_string" in
*ree*|*ruby-1.9.2*)
export RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS=1000000
export RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_INCREMENT=1000000
export RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_GROWTH_FACTOR=1
export RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT=1000000000
export RUBY_HEAP_FREE_MIN=500000
export RUBY_FREE_MIN=$RUBY_HEAP_FREE_MIN
;;
*)
unset RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_INCREMENT RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_GROWTH_FACTOR RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT RUBY_HEAP_FREE_MIN RUBY_FREE_MIN
;;
esac