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Sean True
seant at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jun 5 07:21:48 EST 2000
Like too many people, I'm working on a version of python server pages -- .phtml pages which contain mixed python and HTML code, allowing on the fly construction of pages from files which can mostly be edited with a WYSIWYG HTML editor. I have a phtml.py program which is invoked as a cgi script, and more recently under cgi-handler. The documentation for cgi-handler notes that it may be subject to a memory leak related to os.environ(). On a Linux Redhat 6.1 system with Apache and statically linked mod_python, I'm seeing memory usage growing by about 10K or so per page served (measured by watching the system monitor reports grow). Performance also drops -- from about 15 pages served per second to less than 8 pages per second. All of this makes me think that some data structure in the interpreter or mod_python is growing without bound, in combination with a linear search from the front of the list. The same code runs under pyapache with a very modest memory leak (also documented for pyapache) of about 1K per page served. I was a little unwilling to try switching to a more direct method of content handling under mod_python (creating a request handler for .phtml page) until the whole system was a little more stable. I'm in production under pyapache now, and I hate forking the code base. Comments? Suggestions? Does anyone have a skeleton content handler they would be willing to share, along with a corresponding .conf entry? -- Sean ========== Sean True seant at alum.mit.edu
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