[Zope] Zope Eating Memory for Breakfast

[Tony McDonald]

At 1:00 pm +0200 12/4/00, Monty Taylor wrote:
>Would anyone happen to have any idea why something like this would
>happen?
>This is on Solaris 2.7 with Zope 2.1.4. I can provide any other info you
>like, but I'm not sure what would be useful to know.
>
>-------------------------------------
>load averages:  3.21,  3.08,
>2.72                                                                  
>                 
>13:02:57
>117 processes: 111 sleeping, 2 zombie, 4 on cpu
>CPU states:     % idle,     % user,     % kernel,     % iowait,     %
>swap
>Memory: 4096M real, 66M free, 4080M swap in use, 3255M swap free
>
>   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
>  5866 zope       8  10    0 2262M 2034M cpu2  149:09 24.70% python
>  1983 goldtest   4   0    0   37M   32M cpu3   24:54 24.62% tag_event
>  2370 goldmine   4   0    1  123M  116M cpu1    9:40 23.52% perl
>  2894 root       1   0    0 1584K 1184K cpu0    0:00  0.44% top
>  2372 oracle81   1  58    0  115M   85M sleep   1:20  0.34% oracle

File uploads/downloads?

I think that's what's causing my own colossal memory footprints...I 
believe Zope is caching the files that are uploaded/downloaded, and 
as we have a large number of files that are > 10 megs. They're all 
held on external storage however.

But I'm only guessing - I didn't get any concrete answers/theories as 
to why this might be happening when I asked this question before.

hth
tone
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