[Zope] Python/Zope + Alpha/Redhat == Memory Bloat?

[Stefan H. Holek]

I am observing the following phenomenon:

Develop a Zope site on Intel/Redhat. Takes about 40MB RAM.
Deploy the site on Alpha/Redhat. Contantly grows, easily eating 1GB (!) of 
RAM until it hits the swap and we restart Zope!

All this with the same versions of Python/Zope/Products on Intel and Alpha.

I see that with all Zopes (2.3.0-2.4.3) and all Pythons (1.5.2-2.1.2) in 
all our Projects (and quite different they are).

My admins are out of ideas, say they tried everything (different compilers, 
gcc alpha patches, ...). We also tested Tru64 but could't even get Python 
going well (lockups, segfaults, out-of-memory conditions).

Anybody successfully - that is without obscene memory consumption - running 
Python/Zope on Alpha processors?

Grateful-for-even-the-smallest-hint-ly yours,
Stefan