onis

(pronounced onis)

Onis gives you introspection into object counts of live running ruby process.

Install

$ sudo gem install onis

Example

$ cd onis/
$ cat test/stringpwnd.rb
require 'onis'
puts Process.pid
a = []
while true ; a << "foo" ; sleep(0.5) ; end
$ ruby test/stringpwd.rb &
[1] 26584
$ onis
PID        COMMAND
------------------------------------------------------------
26584      ruby -I lib/ test/stringpwnd.rb
$ onis -f 26584
Class                                         Count
--------------------------------------------------------
String                                        3483
Class                                         156
Array                                         55
Module                                        25
Regexp                                        9
File                                          8
Hash                                          7
Float                                         6
Object                                        3
...

Color!

$ onis -f -c 26584

Watch!

$ onis -w 26584

How it works

1. Onis drops a tempfile named after the pid onis.<pid>
2. Onis then traps SIGUSR1
3. When SIGUSR1 is sent to a process that has required Onis, Onis will dump the ObjectSpace and counts to that tempfile.

TODO:

• handle fork

Thanks

• Aman Gupta (tmm1) for inspiration and example
• Ryan Tomayko for playing that great music at Columbus Cafe and telling me to take this one step further

License

Copyright (c) 2009 Blake Mizerany

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