[ZODB-Dev] ZEO client leaking memory?

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 17:35:35 +0100


Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
> We're seeing a very similar problem with an internal project that uses
> ZEO.  The client-side consumes so much memory that the server side
> fails with a MemoryError.  We haven't made much progress debugging,

Is this still the case?

> It's hard to tell if this is a problem with ZEO or not.  If the client
> is leaking memory, the leak could be in any of several places: in the
> ClientStorage, in any of the Zope code used by the client, or in the
> applications themselves.

Yup... how do I go about measuring/narrowing it down?

>   CW> This, of course, could be a myriad of different things. Anyone
>   CW> got any clues on how I can find out what's going on?
> 
> [More on this later.]  Jim noted that a number of the cache related
> calls take ages and do nothing when the age is 0.  

Hurm :-(

Chris