I''ve got a little test script that just sleeps, calls `free -m` and sleeps again for a while. Adding "require ''mechanize''" to the top of the script increases the resident memory (as reported by top) from about 5mb to about 16mb. That 11mb jump seems a little crazy to me. The initial 5mb is rubygems, which also seems a little crazy to me. Am I way off track? Does this seem unremarkable to everyone else? Or, have I inadvertently set the "use-a-lot-of-memory" switch? Aaron -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/attachments/20090610/64a1c056/attachment.html>