Re: [Zope-dev] SWAP issue

2002-09-06 Thread Ahsan Imam
I introduced the LeakFinder product. However Friday, Saturday and Sunday are least busiest days on our site. Our main zope server is not swapping at all today. So I cannot replicate what happened yesterday or the day before. When I looked at the debug information section, it showed me the reque

Re: [Zope-dev] SWAP issue

2002-09-06 Thread Dieter Maurer
Ahsan Imam writes: > Is there a way catch that non terminating loop? This non-terminating loop is just a >theory I have. I could be completely wrong. Are there other things I could look at >for clues. When you have indeed a non-terminating loop (and you Zope is still responsive), you can find

Re: [Zope-dev] SWAP issue

2002-09-06 Thread Ahsan Imam
I installed the LeakFinder product and two most called references are: 1) DocumentTemplate.DT_Util.Eval 2) OFS.Image.File Do these classes have any prior history? Should I patch them or what other course can I take? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks Ahsan Imam >>> Dieter Maurer <[EMAIL

Re: [Zope-dev] SWAP issue

2002-09-05 Thread Dieter Maurer
Ahsan Imam writes: > After starting zope eveything works fine for a while. Slowly the swap starts to >swell up and after a few hours the machine has to be rebooted. The funny thing is >that free shows that there is almost a gig of RAM free and swap keeps on growing. >After a while the machi

Re: [Zope-dev] SWAP issue

2002-09-05 Thread Ahsan Imam
The kernel is 2.4.7-10. Zope 2.5 on Red Hat 7.2 python 2.1.3 Here is what I think the problem is: Some object or code was introduced on Tuesday morning. The users are beginners so they could have introduced a never ending loop or something of that sort. I turned on profiling to see if thre was

Re: [Zope-dev] SWAP issue

2002-09-05 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Thursday 05 Sep 2002 2:58 am, Ahsan Imam wrote: > Hello All, > > I am currently running zope 2.5 and python 2.1.3. Are you actually seeing the zope processes use too much memory? 2.5.x have a ZODB cache mechanism that does not respond well to memory pressure. If your application touches man