On Aug 30, 9:39 pm, Oskar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Our site that uses webpy running on apache increases its memory usage
> over time, about 1 or 2 GB per few weeks, until we restart. We don't
> have a lot of traffic, about 30 unique people visit the site in that
> time, probably a few times each. The developers (4 people) visit the
> site a lot of times each day.
>
> Our sysadmin said that it is apache that uses the memory. But we don't
> know why it happens. Do anyone has any idea what could be the matter?

If you are loading mod_python into Apache, even if not using it and
using mod_wsgi instead, it leaks memory on Apache restarts. So get rid
of mod_python. If using mod_wsgi ensure you are using mod_wsgi 3.0.

For mod_wsgi the problem isn't actually mod_wsgi's fault, but that
Python interpreter itself doesn't release memory when destroyed. See:

  http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/11/save-on-memory-with-modwsgi-30.html

Anyway, as you don't say anything about what you are using to host
application, that is all a big guess. The problem also simply could be
because your application itself is holding onto objects and causing
the problem.

Graham

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