Hi all, I have an external method that uploads RTF files(and only RTF files) into a unix directory. It works fine, except it doesn't seem to release the memory it uses up in uploading the file. The method is; def process_file(self, file, location, REQUEST): if file.read(1) == '': return "NO file. Something wrong?" file.seek(0) split = string.split(file.filename, '\\') filename = string.lower(split[-1]) # save the file into the correct directory oname = os.path.join(savedir + location, filename) f = open(oname, "wb") body = file.read() f.write(body) f.close() if type(body) is not type(''): body=body.data content_type, enc = guess_content_type(oname, body, None) if content_type == 'application/rtf': # it's ok, we can go ahead and process this file. # need to strip off the .rtf extension however guideid = string.replace(filename, '.rtf', '') filesize = os.stat(oname)[6] # copy the file from savedir to opsdir os.system("cp -f %s %s" % (oname, opsdir)) # now cd to the operations directory and do some stuff. os.chdir(opsdir) # actually do the grinding... os.system("DoAGuide %s" % guideid) # return the output of the log file logfilename = os.path.join(opsdir, "%s.log" % guideid) f = open(logfilename, "r") logoutput = f.read() f.close() # get the template we're going to use for output. template_str = self.done.read_raw() template = DocumentTemplate.HTML(template_str) theresult = template(self, filename=filename, contenttype=content_type, filesize=filesize, guideid=guideid, logoutput=logoutput) return theresult return "File saved %s, size (bytes) %s. content-type [%s]" % (filename, filesize, content_type) The files are roughly 2-3 megs in size, and each time they're uploaded the amount of memory (as reported by 'top') used by the process increases by about that amount. *Any* ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. We've had our server brought down twice by a python process (ie zope) that was taking up 1.1 gigs of RAM. Tone ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5116 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2 _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )