We have seen many instances where memory has grown after a system update. Some underlying library starts to leak. Vice-versa as well. Perhaps in the last two days you did an update that fixed whatever was broken?
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 2:06 PM Clyde <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, that was helpful - I had been looking in /var/log/messages. The > syslog does contain useful information: > > Nov 23 07:32:10 weather kernel: [4443467.475752] Out of memory: Killed > process 25057 (python3) total-vm:357356kB, anon-rss:255512kB, file-rss:0kB, > shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:324kB oom_score_adj:0 > > So at that time it was using around 255MB resident memory. Checking now > (weewx has been running for a day or two) and it's 120MB rss. After a > restart and waiting for an update round, it's 44MB resident and 100MB > virtual (vs the 357MB virtual at time of OOM.) > > So it looks like a memory leak to me. A daily restart would probably work > around it, but before upgrading to 4.5.1 and Belchertown I had no such > issues (was running 3.9.2 for a looong time.) > > It's running on a Pi Zero with 0.5GB RAM. > > > > On Friday, 26 November 2021 at 8:14:39 am UTC+11 [email protected] wrote: > >> Not much information here. I know you think there is nothing in the log, >> but humor us, include it anyway. Please see *Help! Posting to weewx user* >> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Help!-Posting-to-weewx-user>. >> >> The log /var/log/syslog is preferred. >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d4ec3209-61b8-4c0f-94c0-9a94803e6d6fn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d4ec3209-61b8-4c0f-94c0-9a94803e6d6fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zECaoxZk27dY6rHrVRn6n4h9Wk-EnTHRv5VZH71LKJCPcQ%40mail.gmail.com.
