what driver are you using ? it's rather strange that postrgresql acts up and eat all the available memory, if you didn't tinker with the defaults settings of postgresql...
On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 5:09:34 AM UTC+2, Abhishek Ram wrote: > > Well the memory leak was from the postgres processes spawned by the web2py > scheduler process. I am sure about this as I have seen TOP and confirmed > that it was these processes that were consuming the memory. I even tried > with a basic app and the postgres processes continued to consume memory. So > finally I shifted to mysql and memory consumption is now stable. > > On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 12:24:27 AM UTC+5:30, Niphlod wrote: >> >> you're seeing a totally normal thing: postgresql spawns a different >> process for each connection. >> Those processes in linux are fork()s, so even if you SEEM to notice a >> skyrocket in memory utilization summing all different processes (e.g. in >> "top"), in reality it's not sucking up every bit of RAM of your server. >> >> I'm sure this is not your case, but if you see postgresql processes >> comsuming memory, the leak in postgresql processes CAN'T be generated by >> web2py in any circumnstance. Unless you tinkered a lot with postgresql.conf >> (which is pretty conservative in all distros) you won't ever see postgresql >> leaking. >> >> On Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 5:50:04 AM UTC+2, Abhishek Ram wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using the web2py scheduler to run some background jobs. I am >>> starting the scheduler using systemd and once started it also spawns two >>> postgres processes as that is my DB. Now the problem is that the postgres >>> processes continue to consume more and more memory even when no process is >>> running. >>> >>> So my question is what is causing the scheduler process to do this? >>> >>> P.S. The postgres processes linked to the main web2py process do not >>> exhibit this behaviour. >>> >>> Regards >>> Abhishek Ram >>> >> -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
