I'm reading up on strace now. in the meanwhile, here is the MVC code (not sure if I can attach a file to google groups)….
Model: -Nothing. I have an empty model file. Other than the default settings that come with a new controller. Ordinarily I am using a Model and writing to the SQLite db. But this is the simplest case I could make that still replicates the problem. View: -Don't have this either. I'm only ever returning a json object via REST so there's no need for a view. Controller: You can see some of what normally gets loaded, which I've commented out. I also tried to see if gc or cache would help. I've never used these before though so I may have been doing it incorrectly. the RESTful query would look something like: http://domain.com/memclimb/request.json?jo={"Test":"memory"} "request.py" (controller)... _______vv______ @request.restful() #@cache(request.env.path_info,time_expire=10,cache_model=cache.ram) def test(): #import gc import gluon.contrib.simplejson response.view = 'generic.'+request.extension #gc.enable() def GET(*args,**vars): jsonObject = request.vars.jo obj = gluon.contrib.simplejson.loads(jsonObject) return {'message': 'testing Memory.'} #gc.collect() return locals() _______^^________ Only seems to be a problem under high traffic. So I created this python script and ran 10 instances of it from another machine. It's common for our site to have >100 trying to hit it at about the same time, but I can see the memory climb even with only 10. "testLoad.py"... ________vv________ #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import os import urllib def main(): for i in range(1000): result = urllib.urlopen('https://domain.com/memclimb/request/test.json?jo={"Test":"memory"}') json = result.read() print "done…\n\t%s"%json if __name__ == '__main__': main() __________^^________ On Feb 5, 2013, at 8:30 AM, greaneym wrote: > Hello, > In addition sending the model, view, controller code, you can try the > following. > > It looks like dreamhost is using debian linux. You can try using the strace > command in a shell while your process is running. You can run it against > different process ids (pid) to help figure out what is associated with the > problem. > > Here is a link that may be useful in running strace. > http://www.hokstad.com/5-simple-ways-to-troubleshoot-using-strace > Save the output in a file so you can look at it. > > Also you can run "top" in a shell to see what pid, program is running more > than others and that may help you as well. > > > > > -- > > --- > 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/groups/opt_out. > > -- --- 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/groups/opt_out.