[Moin-user] huge python processes

[Adam Shand]

Hi,

I'm having problems with Python growing to enourmous sizes on my server. 
  The only Python CGI running in Moin and restarting apache solves the 
problem (it takes about a day to get this bad).


Mem:    506324K total,   501924K used,     4400K free,     3892K buffers
Swap:  2000084K total,  1883264K used,   116820K free,    14020K cached

    PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
27678 ptp       15   0  497M 105M   356 D     3.7 21.2  34:52 python2.2
30570 ptp       14   0  285M 103M   356 D     2.1 21.0  19:28 python2.2
28081 ptp       11   0  479M  71M   368 D     1.3 14.4  22:47 python2.2
27650 ptp       17   0  495M  70M   360 D     3.9 14.3  31:52 python2.2
30635 ptp        9   0  480M  56M   760 D     0.3 11.4  22:03 python2.2

What really confusing to me is that it's the python processes that are 
getting huge, since Moin runs as a CGI shouldn't the python processes be 
dying off after each request?

Any help or ideas of how to troubleshoot would be much appreciated.  I'm 
running apache 1.3.26, python 2.2.1 and a slightly hacked moin 1.1 (just 
for appearance stuff):

   http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi?test

MoinMoin CGI Diagnosis
======================

Package "MoinMoin" sucessfully imported.

Release  1.1
Revision 1.161

Python version 2.2.1 (#1, Sep  7 2002, 14:34:30)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)]
Python installed to /usr

PyXML is installed

Checking directories...
     data directory tests OK (set to 
'/var/local/www.personaltelco.net/moin')
     text directory tests OK (set to 
'/var/local/www.personaltelco.net/moin/text')
     user directory tests OK (set to 
'/var/local/www.personaltelco.net/moin/user')
     backup directory tests OK (set to 
'/var/local/www.personaltelco.net/moin/backup')

Found an external diff: "diff - GNU diffutils version 2.7"

Server Environment:
     ONLY AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL REQUESTS ON THIS HOST!


Thanks,
Adam.