[Zope-dev] SWAP issue

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:00:58 +0200


Ahsan Imam writes:
 > After starting zope eveything works fine for a while. Slowly the swap starts to swell up and after a few hours the machine has to be rebooted. The funny thing is that free shows that there is almost a gig of RAM free and swap keeps on growing. After a while the machine simply hangs.
When it is Zope, then restarting Zope should free your swap again.

  This way, you can test whether Zope is the culprit and avoid
  rebooting your computer.

When it is Zope, there probably is a resource leak. There is
the "LeakFinder" product to localize such leaks.


Dieter