I can relate to that behavior as I also see a memory usage increase from just running web2py, but I don't know if it's the same thing as what was described by the OP.
OS X El Capitan Python 2.7.10 (default, Sep 23 2015, 04:34:21) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72)] on darwin Web2py Version 2.14.6-stable+timestamp.2016.05.10.00.21.47 If I just type 'python web2py.py' on a terminal window I do see the python process in activity monitor show an increasing memory allocation right away. I don't even need to click the 'start server' button on the web2py dialog that shows up after typing the python command. Every time activity monitor refreshes the entry (once every 2 seconds?) I see the memory allocated to the python process to increase by a megabyte or 2. Doesn't really cause a major issue on my side. I can run my web2py apps and for days. I never see any crashes. Of course after a few days the python process has allocated a few gigabytes of memory (sometimes over 9 gb) and by then the computer is using the swap file for everything so overall performance is very poor. Quick restart of the python process cures the problem, at least for a few more days until I'm back at the same situation of high memory utilization. But again I've never seen any application crashes on my side nor I run anything in production mode so this has never bothered me. I always thought I had something configured improperly. Hope this helps, Julian On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 12:06:57 PM UTC-5, Anthony wrote: > > If I download source and run from python 2.7.11, I get a slow memory leak >> (1.1MB/minute before the server is started, 2.5MB/sec when the server is >> started). >> > > This sounds suspicious. How can web2py be causing a memory leak if you are > not running it? Are you suggesting that if you merely download the web2py > source code onto your computer but do absolutely nothing with it, a memory > leak mysteriously materializes? > > Anthony > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
