PyApache memory leak?

Patrick Phalen python-list at teleo.net
Thu Apr 20 13:58:27 EDT 2000


[spenrose at my-deja.com, on Thu, 20 Apr 2000]
:: We commented out PyApache in httpd.conf. Two days and six hours
:: later...the server did not freeze. We've been up for 11 days and
:: counting and that was the only change we made. I freely acknowledge that
:: this is not definitive proof of a showstopper in PyApache, but I am not
:: up to reading thousands of lines of C to pursue other theories.

I haven't used PyApache, but am under the impression that it spawns
multiple interpreter instances, which could certainly cause memory
problems on a busy, CGI-intensive site.

Have you looked at Httpdapy (soon to be renamed mod_python)?
http://www.ispol.com/home/grisha/httpdapy/





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