Re: site's been down

On 17/03/2008, Federico Di Gregorio <fog-NGVKUo/i/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:01:05PM -0600, Nathan wrote:
>  > I don't even get a 500 error.  Just a "problem loading page" error on firefox.
>  >
>  > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Michael Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > > http://www.initd.org/tracker/psycopg/wiki/PsycopgTwo  keeps reporting
>  > >  a 500 error for a couple of days now.   Any word on the tracker being
>  > >  up again ?
>
>
> The problem was mod_python, sucking up all memory. So we switched to
>  FCGI and now a single trac process consumes about 4G of virtual memory
>  in 24h (then stops working). I am sorry but trac is such a piece of
>  crap that I heartily regret having started to use it. :(

My guess is that this would be memory leaks in the Subversion bindings
for Python.  I know that the bzr-svn folks found many leaks, often
requiring development releases to run without going out of memory.  I
wouldn't be surprised if the same holds for Trac.

Perhaps setting a resource limit on the Trac fastcgi process would be
a decent workaround (assuming that Apache is smart enough to restart
dead fastcgi backends).

James.