[ZODB-Dev] Very Weird Behaviour :-(

[Dieter Maurer]

Chris Withers wrote at 2003-6-16 09:41 +0100:
 > Dieter Maurer wrote:
 > 
 > > Whenever your Zope eats too much memory, you should have a look
 > > at the "Debug information" page in your "Control_Panel".
 > > It has a section "Top Refcounts". When your high memory usage
 > > is caused by Python instances, you may see a class with
 > > unexpectedly many references (that's what is shown it this section).
 > 
 > Difficult to do when the Zope in question has stopped responding ;-)

Indeed ;-)

 > What should I do under these circumstances?

I do not have a receipe.

I would probably start a C-level debugger and examine what
the active thread does.


Dieter