[Zope] Minimal Zope Install - True Story

J. Atwood Jatwood@bwanazulia.com
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:36:39 -0400


You read correctly, just not the entire post. I said that the machine was
broken and was not seeing the 128 MB of RAM I have installed, instead it was
only using the 12 on the system board (DELL).

As for Python sucking up memory (and one of the reasons I posted) it is
true. I have it on another machine with 256 MB or memory and here is what it
is doing..

TSIZE  SIZE SWAP  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM  CTIME COMMAND
403 44376    0  43M  1424 S       0  0.0 17.2   6:08 python
403 44376    0  43M  1424 S       0  0.0 17.2   0:00 python
403 44376    0  43M  1424 S       0  0.0 17.2   2:53 python
403 44376    0  43M  1424 S       0  0.0 17.2   1:33 python
403 44376    0  43M  1424 S       0  0.0 17.2   7:57 python
403 44376    0  43M  1424 S       0  0.0 17.2   6:11 python

That is 43MB per! 

Zope uses what it can take. On the machine with 12MB it uses this..

SIZE SWAP  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM  CTIME COMMAND
6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   3:06 python
6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   0:00 python
6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   2:04 python
6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   1:54 python
6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   1:39 python
6592  816   332 S       0  0.0  5.9   2:46 python

I am sure on a machine with 5 GB it would use most of it. Such is the nature
of Linux (I think). It goes up and down with usage and with packing the
database.

J

> From: "Hung Jung Lu" <hungjunglu@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:18:01 PDT
> To: Jatwood@bwanazulia.com, zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Minimal Zope Install - True Story
> 
>> Mem:   13608K av,  12824K used,    784K free,
>> 
>> WHAT? Yes, only 12MB of memory... The machine has lost all of its memory
>> and
>> is just running on the system board memory. Oh yeah, and it is a 166 MHz
>> Pentium.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't quite understand what your message meant.
> (I am serious and not making fun.)
> 
> You only mentioned 12MB memory. Is that all the RAM memory
> on the machine?
> 
> Do you know that a person just complained about Zope because
> it was sucking up 2GB of memory? No, there is no typo. It's
> 2GB, not 2MB.
> 
> I mean, to run a website, at very least be prepared to have
> 64MB, it's about US$70 nowadays. I hope I have not misunderstood,
> but I can't possibly imagine Zope running on a computer that
> has only 12MB! :)
> 
> regard,
> 
> Hung Jung
> 
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