[Zope] serious memory leak?

[Dieter Maurer]

Dylan Reinhardt wrote at 2003-10-14 13:06 -0700:
 > I've got a Zope instance that uses a custom product to store a couple MB
 > of data.  When the object is created, it loads up a bunch of data from
 > the filesystem and pretty much just stores it statically.
 > 
 > Creating an instance of this object appears to cause no major drag on
 > Zope... while dormant, this zope instance uses 0.1 of available memory.
 > Making a request against the object briefly spikes usage to ~3%.  
 > 
 > Over the course of 2-3 days, however this zope instance grows to consume
 > > 90% of available memory which is obviously a problem. This is on a
 > server with 2 GB of RAM running little besides zope and apache.

Did you look at the "Reference counts" section in
"Control_Panel --> Debug information"?


Dieter