Thanks everyone. I might offload some big processes into a separate process. The background knowledge I've aquired from this thread is going to help a lot.
I still have no flipping idea how to use heapy though! On Apr 9, 12:30 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 08:43 +0100, Andy Baker wrote: > > Wow! So Python will eat RAM until restarted? That changes the way I am > > thinking about this problem. > > Well, that's not really accurate, as you realise further down. The > maximum amount of RAM used will not decrease. However, it won't increase > without bound unless you actually require using a larger simultaneous > amount. > > [...] > > > So my memory usage will always statistically converge on: > > (Amount of RAM used by most expensive request) x (Maximum simultaneous > > Django processes) > > Providing the most expensive request is likely to frequently. In many > cases, the most expensive request could well be an outlier that only > happens infrequently. Statistically infrequent events are a smaller > concern, since they'll happen less than once, on average, between > process restarts. > > > > > and nothing I do with within Django itself can reduce this. > > That's correct. It's not a really bad thing, since, as I mentioned, it's > completely normal Unix process behaviour. And webservers already account > for that with settings like the maximum number of requests per child. > It's also one of the arguments for using multiple threads instead of > multiple processes sometimes (the memory allocator operates on a > per-process granularity, so can be shared between threads). > > Definitely something to take into consideration, but it's manageable. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
