[Zope] Zope Eating Memory for Breakfast

[Michel Pelletier]

Tony McDonald wrote:
> 
> At 1:00 pm +0200 12/4/00, Monty Taylor wrote:
> >Would anyone happen to have any idea why something like this would
> >happen?
> >This is on Solaris 2.7 with Zope 2.1.4. I can provide any other info you
> >like, but I'm not sure what would be useful to know.
> >
> >  5866 zope       8  10    0 2262M 2034M cpu2  149:09 24.70% python

> File uploads/downloads?
> 
> I think that's what's causing my own colossal memory footprints...I
> believe Zope is caching the files that are uploaded/downloaded, and
> as we have a large number of files that are > 10 megs. They're all
> held on external storage however.
> 
> But I'm only guessing - I didn't get any concrete answers/theories as
> to why this might be happening when I asked this question before.

Tony,

Is there anything evident from Control_Panel/manage_debug?  You'll need
to be a bit clever to grok the refcounting stuff, but serious memory
leaks should be pretty obvious to the eye.

-Michel