[Zope] Zope process keeps consuming memory...

[Tony McDonald]

Hi,
I have a Zope process that is currently using rather a large amount of memory.

Here's a dump of the relevant line from 'top';

load averages:  0.01,  0.39,  0.57 
13:14:44
273 processes: 269 sleeping, 3 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 97.0% idle,  0.2% user,  0.4% kernel,  2.4% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 512M real, 38M free, 610M swap in use, 686M swap free

   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
14190 nnle       9  33    0  193M  191M sleep  23:51  0.00% python

This is from a database that is 9 Megs in size.

Basically, does Zope have a memory leak or something that can cause 
this to happen?
What can I do to find out if this is the case?
What can I do about it?

Zope 2.1.3, source distribution under Solaris 5.6

any thoughts are appreciated,
tone.
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