I just thought I'd add that I have max_procs => 1 in lighttpd.conf.

Brendon

On Jun 30, 4:28 pm, brendon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was curious if it is normal for there to always be 6 instances of
> web.py running. e.g. when i run the ps command i get 6 instances of
> python all with different PID's.
> e.g.
>
>  1736 root      7228 S    /usr/bin/python /mnt/WebpyTest/main.py
>  1737 root      7228 S    /usr/bin/python /mnt/WebpyTest/main.py
>  1738 root      7228 S    /usr/bin/python /mnt/WebpyTest/main.py
>  1739 root      7228 S    /usr/bin/python /mnt/WebpyTest/main.py
>  1740 root      7228 S    /usr/bin/python /mnt/WebpyTest/main.py
>  1741 root      7228 S    /usr/bin/python /mnt/WebpyTest/main.py
>  1742 root      7228 S    /usr/bin/python /mnt/WebpyTest/main.py
>
> However, when I check the memory usage with the top command I get the
> following:
>
>  1736  1735 root     S     7228 23.5  0.0 /usr/bin/python /mnt/
> WebpyTest/main.py
>  1737  1736 root     S     7228 23.5  0.0 /usr/bin/python /mnt/
> WebpyTest/main.py
>  1738  1737 root     S     7228 23.5  0.0 /usr/bin/python /mnt/
> WebpyTest/main.py
>  1739  1737 root     S     7228 23.5  0.0 /usr/bin/python /mnt/
> WebpyTest/main.py
>  1740  1737 root     S     7228 23.5  0.0 /usr/bin/python /mnt/
> WebpyTest/main.py
>  1741  1737 root     S     7228 23.5  0.0 /usr/bin/python /mnt/
> WebpyTest/main.py
>  1742  1737 root     S     7228 23.5  0.0 /usr/bin/python /mnt/
> WebpyTest/main.py
>
> I am running this on a very stripped down version of Linux and off a
> SD card the system specs are also quite 8MB flash memory, 1GB SD and
> only 32MB memory. Hence, it is very important that I use the minimal
> amount of resources. I have tried different combinations of Lighttpd
> with FastCGI as well as using flups for WSGI, but I am still getting
> memory errors always being because main.py used up all the memory.
> Apart from my program having a memory leak I just want to know the
> following:
> 1. Is it normal for there to be so many instances of webpy (main.py in
> my case)
> 2. Is it a concern?
> 3. Any other recommendations to get the web.py memory consumption
> down.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
>
> Brendon
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