[Zope] How to hunt down memory hog?

[Dieter Maurer]

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"...


Dieter