Re: memory leak? Am I taking crazy pills?

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Dan Ancona <afightingfaith@gmail.com> wrote:
> python 2.7.3, django 1.4.2
>
> Our app (a fairly simple tastypie API that runs some machine learning foo on mongodb records) is deployed to heroku and is leaking memory at a pretty good clip. Hitting heroku memory errors after about an hour or two, under significant load.
>
> Wandered through some various profiling options and eventually started to get suspicious of tastypie. So I tried ripping that out. And then everything else, until I finally got down to a django view that has nothing but this in it:
>
> def stack(request):
> gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_LEAK)
> print "Uncollectable garbage", gc.garbage
> return HttpResponse('hi')
>
> And even that, after a couple reloads, dumps a huge mess, the beginning of which is below. Looks like the whole heap.
>
> Any idea what might be going on here or what my next steps are?
>

Is settings.DEBUG true? Expected behaviour.

Cheers

Tom

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