Detecting memory leaks on apache, mod_python

Ilias Lazaridis ilias at lazaridis.com
Fri Dec 21 08:32:04 EST 2007


On Dec 21, 12:25 pm, Graham Dumpleton <Graham.Dumple... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Dec 21, 7:42 pm, Ilias Lazaridis <il... at lazaridis.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 5:40 am, Ilias Lazaridis <il... at lazaridis.com> wrote:
> > > On Dec 17, 8:41 am, Ilias Lazaridis <il... at lazaridis.com> wrote:
> > > > How to detect memory leaks of python programms, which run in an
> > > > environment like this:
>
> > > >  * Suse Linux 9.3
> > > >  * Apache
> > > >  *mod_python
>
> > > > The problem occoured after some updates on the infrastructure. It's
> > > > most possibly caused by trac and it's dependencies, but several
> > > > components of the OS where updated, too.
>
> > > > Any nice tools which play with the above constellation?
>
> > > > Thank's for any hints!
>
> > > No tool available to detect memory leaks for python applications?
>
> > So, anyone who hit's on this thread via a search will think
>
> > a) that there's really no memory leak detection for python
> > b) that this community is not very helpful
>
> Comments like (b) will not help your chances one bit in respect of
> getting an answer from anyone.
[...]

I'm really just looking for a low-level python (memory) profiling
tool, and thus i'm asking in c.l.p. for experiences, mainly in context
of an apache mod_python environment.

As to Open Source etc.:

http://case.lazaridis.com/wiki/PythonAudit
http://case.lazaridis.com/wiki/CoreLiveEval

Than you for your reply.

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