I also noticed that down near the bottom of this thread
http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi/browse_thread/thread/9d0e72b2cd3a833a/ef021fcca0871c77
Graham Dumpleton said that "Under 'top' or 'ps', the mod_wsgi daemon
process will still show as a apache/httpd process."  So I think it all
gets lumped together.

On Nov 11, 12:38 pm, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm, i don't think I'm actually seeing the daemons.  What do they show
> up as under COMMAND (I dont see anything with wsgi).  But there is
> another small dev site running on the same server (they are both
> theoretically set up under daemon mode as I showed above).  I think
> that if it wasn't in daemon mode they wouldn't both work although I
> could be wrong about that.  Looking at the apache conf I posted
> earlier does it seem that I have properly configured daemon mode?
> Thanks.
>
> On Nov 11, 12:22 pm, Alex Robbins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > If you are really running mod_wsgi in daemon mode, then django and
> > satchmo won't be able to affect the size of the httpd processes. The
> > python interpreter should live in the mod_wsgi daemon, which is a
> > completely separate process. I have had troubles before with mod_wsgi
> > running in embedded mode, even though it is supposed to be daemon. Can
> > you see any processes for mod_wsgi? If you don't get the config
> > exactly right, it won't use daemon mode. (This might not even be the
> > problem, but if there aren't daemon processes something is
> > misconfigured.)
>
> > If you can see the daemon processes, and httpd is separate and huge,
> > then I'm not sure what is going on. It wouldn't be python making it
> > big. Maybe there are some other modules installed? (mod_php, mod_rails
> > or something like that?)
>
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Ok so the server is a VPS and it uses virtualmin and centos.  My
> > > understanding is that each domain has its own httpd process (two if
> > > you have ssl enabled).  I have been watching the output of top for
> > > awhile and when I say memory usage I am talking about the virt of a
> > > specific httpd process.  I am fairly certain that this is the httpd
> > > process which the site runs from because it is the correct user and as
> > > I opened multiple connections the memory usage began going up.  This
> > > single httpd process now is up to 867m virt and 651m res.  There are
> > > other things on the system using memory but they have remained
> > > constant and I am concerned that a single process has gone up so much
> > > when it seems that nothing is going on with the site.  Thanks for the
> > > help.
>
> > > On Nov 11, 11:53 am, Alex Robbins <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >> First off, mod_wsgi in daemon mode with apache should be a decent
> > >> deployment method for ram consumption. I don't think your problem is
> > >> there.
>
> > >> When you say the memory usage is 650mb, what is actually using all
> > >> that memory? Is it httpd processes? The mod_wsgi processes?
>
> > >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > Oh yeah my urls looks like this:
>
> > >> > from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
> > >> > from store.urls import urlpatterns
>
> > >> > urlpatterns += patterns('',
> > >> >    ('^pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
> > >> >    (r'^product_info\.php', 'store.localsite.views.old_redirect'),
> > >> >    (r'^searchRedirect/', 'store.localsite.views.redirect_search'),
> > >> >    (r'^reports/', 'store.localsite.views.reports.view'),
> > >> > )
>
> > >> > and I have local_dev and debug set to false.  (searchRedirect and the
> > >> > product_info\.php above were set up to redirect because the site used
> > >> > to be osCommerce based).
>
> > >> > On Nov 11, 11:46 am, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> >> It is centos but we are using apache and mod_wsgi in daemon mode, here
> > >> >> is the relevant part of my apache conf:
> > >> >> -------
>
> > >> >> Alias /static/ /home/hatikva/store/static/
>
> > >> >> <Directory /home/hatikva/store/static>
> > >> >> Order deny,allow
> > >> >> Allow from all
> > >> >> </Directory>
>
> > >> >> Alias /media/ /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/
> > >> >> admin/media/
>
> > >> >> <Directory 
> > >> >> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/
> > >> >> media>
> > >> >> Order deny,allow
> > >> >> Allow from all
> > >> >> </Directory>
>
> > >> >> WSGIDaemonProcess hatikva.com user=hatikva group=hatikva python-path=/
> > >> >> usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages
> > >> >> WSGIProcessGroup hatikva.com
> > >> >> WSGIScriptAlias / /home/hatikva/store/apache/store.wsgi
>
> > >> >> -------
>
> > >> >> My understanding is that the way the static directory is set up above
> > >> >> means that apache and not django serves media.
>
> > >> >> As I have watched the memory usage has continued to go up, its now at
> > >> >> ~650m, up from ~220m (I have stopped refreshing and this has happened
> > >> >> in the past 20 minutes or so).
>
> > >> >> I am open to recommendations as to a better setup (which I may or may
> > >> >> not be able to do depending on the person I have made the site for).
> > >> >> Thanks for the quick response!
>
> > >> >> -Josh
>
> > >> >> On Nov 11, 11:39 am, Laszlo Antal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> >> > Hi,
>
> > >> >> > Could you check to make sure django does not serve static media?
> > >> >> > I had a very similar issue (4000+ products) and I left by accident 
> > >> >> > the static_serve in urls.py
> > >> >> > Just a thought
>
> > >> >> > lzantal
>
> > >> >> > On Nov 11, 2010, at 11:30, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> >> > > I have been working on a satchmo site with ~3000 products that has
> > >> >> > > repeatedly over the past week or so crashed the server it is 
> > >> >> > > running.
> > >> >> > > It is on a VPS with 2G dedicated ram.  It seems that once the 
> > >> >> > > httpd
> > >> >> > > process allocates memory it never releases it, eventually taking 
> > >> >> > > all
> > >> >> > > available memory and crashing the server.  I tried opening about 
> > >> >> > > ten
> > >> >> > > pages from the site and repeatedly hard refreshed them and 
> > >> >> > > watched the
> > >> >> > > memory usage (via top) shoot up more than 150m in about 10 
> > >> >> > > minutes,
> > >> >> > > its still going up as I write this.
>
> > >> >> > > Are there any known memory leaks in satchmo?  Why would memory 
> > >> >> > > usage
> > >> >> > > continue to go up after I have stopped hard refreshing?  (I guess 
> > >> >> > > it
> > >> >> > > is possible that other people are visiting the site but every two
> > >> >> > > second or so it seems to go up about 1m, which if it continues the
> > >> >> > > server will crash again).  Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> > >> >> > > -Josh
>
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