I am using the default driver pg8000

On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 7:47:41 PM UTC+5:30, Niphlod wrote:
>
> 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
>>>>
>>>

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