[Gems-users] Memory consumption by Ruby

[Shantanu Gupta <shangupt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is there some way to reduce the memory consumption by RUBY ?

When Simics is run by itself, it consume about 100-200 MB of main memory. 
But when I load RUBY, the requirement goes upto 1-2 GB, which isn't so bad 
considering what all it does.
But, I have been trying to do some experiments with variation in the data 
block size while keeping the total cache size same. For e.g., in order to 
reduce the block size by the factor of 2, I increase the cache 
associativity by the same factor. And this, doubles the memory consumption 
for every factor of 2 increase in the associativity, is this expected ?
Shantanu