[Zope] Zope process keeps consuming memory...

[Tony McDonald]

At 7:47 pm +0100 10/2/00, Svante Kleist wrote:
>         I've noticed similar behavior after installing
>         WorldPilot. Things worked just fine for a while,¨
>         but then none of the mailboxes were available;
>         and one of the zope processes started to grow wildly.
>
>         / Svante Kleist, NEMESIS systemDesign - Stockholm
>

Thanks for the info Svante, at least it's not just me.
Here's what's happening at the moment

load averages:  0.27,  0.22,  0.29 
12:17:35
278 processes: 273 sleeping, 3 zombie, 2 on cpu
CPU states: 87.4% idle, 10.7% user,  1.1% kernel,  0.8% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 512M real, 11M free, 686M swap in use, 610M swap free

   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
14190 nnle       9   5    0  210M  142M cpu/1  81:08  2.62% python

I can bring the usage way down by restarting the process, but that's 
not a solution for the long term is it?

So, if anyone knows a way I can tell what it is that's using this 
memory, (deeply recursive structures, URLs of the form 
http://host/medfac/medfac/ ... /medfac/indxe_html etc) I'd really 
like to know;
cheers
tone.

>: 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.

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