[ZODB-Dev] ZEO client leaking memory?

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:25:53 +0100


> > In the ZEO server leakage is difficult to distinguish
> > from FileStorage bloat, but it was at most a few tens of megabytes.
> > Thats quite a bit smaller than the problems Chris described.
> 
> ...and an equally several hundred megabyte server.
> 
> By FileStorage bloat, do you mean memory bloat or file size bloat?
> How do you control either?

I meant memory bloat; FileStorage stores an in-memory index of all objects
which grows *very* quickly. That bloat occurs in the ZEO server, not
clients.

(to control file size bloat, use tranalyser to see where the space is going)