You might like to check the version of psycopg2 or whatever db connector you are using. Psycopg had a memory leak reported around 23rd of last month.
Hope this helps. morgamic wrote: > Hey everyone, > > We are working on a new system to help Firefox 3 and Nightly build > testers see crash trends and analyze regressions over time. > > The project is here: > http://code.google.com/p/socorro/ > > Issue filed on the leak: > http://code.google.com/p/socorro/issues/detail?id=46 > > We need some help diagnosing the problem. Do you have any tips on how > to detect memory leaks in the Pylons environment? Recommended > profiling tools? > > Information on the environment: > - Python 2.4 > - Postgresql 8.1 > - Paster served through mod_proxy + Apache2 > > Summary of the problem (pasted from issue 46): > > We have a combination of problems that are causing persistent memory > leaks, > especially on the list-by-signature page: > > 1) whenever we attach something to "c" in a controller, it sometimes > leaks. > I'm not quite sure why. > > 2) whenever we perform an ORM query, the instance objects are never > cleared > from the ORM session. For the moment, I'm going to attach a patch to > explicitly clear them, but I think we probably need a more systemic > solution such as never attaching them to a session in the first place, > or > having a single session per request that is explicitly cleared at the > end > of the request. > > 3) Related to 2 is the caching of instance objects: when we cache them > to a > file they cause leaks... it looks like the act of pickling them is > what > causes the leaks, not unpickling them: I can reproduce the leak even > when I > never request the same list more than once > > Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance. :) > > Mike > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
