[Zope] How to hunt down memory hog?

Mark Roach mrroach@okmaybe.com
24 Apr 2003 16:20:12 -0400


On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 15:41, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Mark Roach wrote at 2003-4-23 14:52 -0400:
>  > I have a fairly simple Zope application which is occasionally (every
>  > couple of days) taking up around 75% of memory on my system. (according
>  > to the %MEM column of top) When this happens my application slows to a
>  > crawl, and I have to cycle my zope service.
>  > 
>  > Is there an easy way to get an idea of all the active objects and their
>  > sizes, or else some other sensible way for me to figure out where this
>  > huge memory leak is coming from?
> 
> "Control_Panel --> Debug Information".
> 
> Somewhere in the middle of this page, you find the top reference
> counts. They can help you to find memory leaks.
> 
> There is also Shane's product "LeakFinder"...
> 

Thanks, Dieter. I brushed past that debug info as I was blindly groping
for an answer but it didn't click with me. I will reexamine it.

Thanks again,

Mark