Thanks for your input. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Scott McCarty <scott.mcca...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I had this exactly same problem with Peel and as far as I could find there > is no way reclaiming this memory unless you set max requests, which will > kill the Apache children processes after that number of requests. It's > normally something used for debugging, but can be used to reclaim ram. > > On the flip side, you could find your machine servers down and your child > processes will reuse that memory when they receive another request that uses > a huge amount of ram. It really depends on how often you are doing that > kind of processing, how you want to tune apache. > > Scott M > > On Jul 19, 2010 9:31 PM, "Vishal Rana" <ranavis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In my web application (Django) I call a function for some request which > > loads like 500 MB data from the database uses it to do some calculation > and > > stores the output in disk. I just wonder even after this request is > served > > the apache / python process is still shows using that 500 MB, why is it > so? > > Can't I release that memory? > > > > Thanks > > Vishal Rana >
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