Heimo Laukkanen wrote:

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This is extremely strange since the service itself ( afaik from the people who manage it ) doesn't want to hog large amounts of memory or when running consume lots of it.

You sure we're talking about zope here? ;-)

Yep ,-) I mean this is really strange behaviour, otherwise I would have not asked. Without softlimit zope seems to try to grab a lot of memory untill all the threads have started and then the memory usage drops down back to what is normal. Database is aroung 600 MB, which is nothing bad since on another instance on another machine I run 2.6.2 with Pyhon 2.2.3 and 1,5 GB filestorage and in startup zope doesn't behave in similar way. I tried to search yesterday for information on how much Zope should be reserving and using memory in startup, but did not find any relevant information. Any pointers?

And when you remove softlimit from the picture... it works? Redhat 7.x?

Yep. Without softlimit it works. Redhat 7.3 I think. It is not my box.

Running this as root? Check the permissions of all the files zope wants to read from and write to. What do the logs say? Try running in debug mode. Failing all else, import pdb and set a trace point, then step through a request.

I'll have to try. -- -huima