Issue #20304 has been updated by peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu). Status changed from Open to Closed Backport changed from 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN to 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: REQUIRED, 3.3: REQUIRED This was fixed in: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/9409 ---------------------------------------- Bug #20304: Memory leak when setting Encoding.default_internal https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20304#change-106989 * Author: MaxLap (Maxime Lapointe) * Status: Closed * ruby -v: 3.3.0 * Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: REQUIRED, 3.3: REQUIRED ---------------------------------------- Problem is present in Ruby 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.3.0. Didn't check before. Put this in a file: ``` 10.times do 100000.times do Encoding.default_internal = nil end puts `ps -o rss= -p #{$$}`.to_i end ``` Result: ``` $ ruby local.rb 27044 30212 33116 36284 39452 42620 45788 48956 51860 55028 ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/