[Zope] Python use more and more memory

[ken]

Dieter Maurer at 20:18 (UTC+0100) on Tue, 10 Dec 2002 said:

= Terry writes:
=  > The memory used by python getting more and more.
=  > Is that a normal behavoir.
=  > 
=  > In beginning I start Zope.
=  > the python use about 26M memory.
=  > 
=  > After several hours
=  > get the result by "top"
=  > Sort by memory usage
=  > 
=  > PID  USER    PRI NI  SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
=  > 4931 www-data 13  0 94324 92M 2504     S  3.5 10.4  7:43 python
=  > 5022 www-data  9  0 94324 92M 2504     S  0.0 10.4  0:00 python
=  > 5023 www-data  9  0 94324 92M 2504     S  0.0 10.4 15:55 python
=  > 5024 www-data 14  0 94324 92M 2504     S 14.5 10.4 16:55 python
=  > 5025 www-data 10  0 94324 92M 2504     S  0.3 10.4 15:35 python
=  > 5026 www-data  9  0 94324 92M 2504     S  0.0 10.4 16:32 python
=  > 
=  > Have any idea why?

For easier reading, I inserted spaces in the above top output.  Hope 
this didn't mess it up for someone else.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I see the %MEM staying at 10.4; SHARE 
and SIZE are likewise staying the same.  Seems that it's behaving itself 
quite well.  Or...?


ken