I think you are experiencing what is described in this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/web2py/leak/web2py/Go1TUyDm4ys/_2W7qnK8ZMEJ and it was fixed in 2.1.1.
Massimo On Saturday, 20 October 2012 02:04:32 UTC-5, Marin Pranjić wrote: > > web2py 2.0.9 > python 2.7.2 > > I tried apache, rocket and uwsgi. > > I was stressing the server with many requests to monitor the memory usage. > Memory was slowly going up. > I think it is normal for memory to increase a bit but not sure how much > should it go up, and should it decrease when I stop making traffic. > > I don't know how to speed up the memory problem. I didn't try other > servers much because this happens in production and I depend on apache > config (rewrite rules). > > After apache restart, memory is ~120Mb and the rest is free. > It goes up to 250Mb very fast and then it stabilizes (i think this is > expected). > > However this is how it looks like after some time (image attached). > > I do not use any sort of caching in web2py. I do not host anything else in > apache that might cause it. > I use default apache config with mpm_worker module. > It should create 2 only processes with many threads and it does. > > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Massimo Di Pierro > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> What web2py version? What Python version? What apache version? Do you get >> the leak running with rocket? >> >> >> On Friday, 19 October 2012 12:24:07 UTC-5, Marin Pranjić wrote: >>> >>> Not sure if web2py has anything with this. Could be. >>> >>> First issue is that CPU jumps up to 100%. I am watching it with htop >>> and it happens every few minutes, 'apache2' process is using it. >>> Site becomes unresponsive. >>> >>> I tried to restart apache several times but it didn't help. >>> However, after server reboot CPU is back to normal and mostly below 2% >>> usage. >>> >>> Another issue is the memory. After server reboot memory consumption is >>> <25%. After some time it goes up to 85%. >>> I have a controller that calls subprocess.Popen and sometimes it doesn't >>> work because of "Cannot allocate memory". >>> This makes the memory consumption an issue. >>> It seems that only apache memory is growing (still using htop to check >>> it). >>> >>> I am not an apache expert and not sure what to do. I can provide >>> additional details if needed. >>> I hope someone can help :) >>> >>> Marin >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > --
