Thanks everyone! Got it under control by doing what Graham suggested.
On Aug 30, 2:55 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" 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/webpy?hl=en.
