[Tutor] How to debug a memory leak in a wsgi application?

[Etienne Robillard]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the reply. I use Debian 9 with 2G of RAM and precompiled 
Python 2.7 with pymalloc. I don't know if debugging was enabled for this 
build and whether I should enable it to allow memory profiling with 
guppy... My problem is that guppy won't show the heap stats for the 
uWSGI master process. However I have partially resolved this issue by 
enabling --reload-on-rss 200 for the uwsgi process.  Previously, the 
htop utility indicated a 42.7% rss memory usage for 2 uWSGI processes. I 
have restarted the worker processes with SIGINT signal. Now my uwsgi 
command line looks like:

% uwsgi --reload-on-rss 200 --gevent 100 --socket localhost:8000 
--with-file /path/to/file.uwsgi --threads 2 --processes 4 --master 
--daemonize /var/log/uwsgi.log

My framework is Django with django-hotsauce 0.8.2 and werkzeug. The web 
server is nginx using uWSGI with the gevent pooling handler.

Etienne

Le 2017-12-06 à 10:00, Alan Gauld via Tutor a écrit :
> On 06/12/17 09:21, Etienne Robillard wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I think my wsgi application is leaking and I would like to debug it.
>>
>> What is the best way to profile memory usage in a running wsgi app?
> This is probably a bit advanced for the tutor list, you might
> get a better response on the main Python list.
>
> But to get a sensible answer you need to provide more data:
> What OS and Python version?
> What toolset/framework are you using?
> What measurements lead you to suspect a memory leak?
>
>

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Etienne Robillard
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https://www.isotopesoftware.ca/