I've been executing long-running scripts that handle map-reduce jobs in production and ruby's garbage collector is by far the worst I've had to deal with. Other

I've been executing long-running scripts that handle map-reduce jobs in production and ruby's garbage collector is by far the worst I've had to deal with. Other python and java processes running similar operations handle this much better. It was equally parts sad and hilarious when I realized that even the GC profiler needed clean up or it would hose our system after a few days.