hybridgroup/kidsruby — Issue #45: Crash leads to RAM-hogging ruby process
Author: bitaxis
Created: 2012-01-03 06:06:08+00:00
State: open

An aspiring Ruby hacker decided to do something like this:

```ruby
Turtle.draw do
background maroon
pencolor white
9999999999999999999999999999999.times do
forward 50
turnright 90
end
end
```

This caused a "glitch", at least on the iMac running OS X 10.7.2, where the current window dies, and a window is spawn. However, it left a ruby process running gobbling up all available memory, and slowing the machine to a crawl.