"Dieter" == Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> writes: Dieter> Sometimes, swap space uses a dynamically determined part Dieter> of "/tmp"...
I'll bear this in mind. It seems unlikely because when I do 'top' sorted by memory during the copy operation, the python processes have a stable, low memory usage while the root partition fills. I am still curious about the strace, though. When I do
strace ./start -t1 -Z ''
I initially have one python process listed in 'top'. When I access a folder through the zope manager interface, two additional python process are spawned. Before folder access: 2793 nobody 9 0 18176 17M 2312 S 0.0 3.5 0:04 python2.1 After folder access in manager interface: 2793 nobody 9 0 18660 18M 2344 S 0.0 3.6 0:04 python2.1 2797 nobody 9 0 18660 18M 2344 S 0.0 3.6 0:00 python2.1 2798 nobody 14 0 18660 18M 2344 S 6.5 3.6 0:00 python2.1 So I am still not sure if my strace is capturing all the relevant events because it appears some threads are still spawned. On a lark, I tried
strace ./start -t0 -Z ''&
Now no new processes are spawned according to 'top', but the server never responds to requests (the browser just hangs), although I could see the requests in my strace... Cheers, John Hunter