On Apr 21, 7:57 pm, cropr <ruben.dec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running 3 pylons apps on a single VPS with 256 MB ram (no swap
> space).  I am using apache in multi threaded mode and mod_wsgi.
> Every 2 to 3 months I restart the apache server, because the apache
> child processes gradually grow in memory size, reaching slowly the 256
> MB limit on busy days.

You are presumably using daemon mode of mod_wsgi else this wouldn't
even likely be possible.

Anyway, read 'http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/11/save-on-memory-with-
modwsgi-30.html'. It explains how to counter the leaks in Python which
occur on an Apache restart.

Graham

> Ruben
>
> On 20 apr, 00:28, Alex <a...@oxygencomputers.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
>
> > Does anyone have any advice on hosting multiple Pylons apps in a low
> > memory environment like a VPS. I've written a few apps using Pylons
> > and it's great, so I'd like to use it for more. However the stuff I've
> > used it for so far has justified running the apps on servers of their
> > own, so I've been running them using paste behind lighty. However this
> > seems to need quite a bit of RAM. I'd like to be able to host quite a
> > few low traffic volume apps on the same VPS, but it seems that running
> > several paste instances wouldn't be possible in the same way it's
> > possible to host lots of low traffic PHP apps behind Apache and
> > mod_php.
>
> > Anyone have any advice on deployment?
>
> > TIA.
> > Alex
>
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