Hi all--
Our group is running a local instance of Galaxy on a Linux box. We have been noticing a
memory issue, where if we leave the server running for a few days, soon all available
memory (~8gb) will be used up to the point where the tools fail because they are unable to
allocate new memory.
While we haven't done any rigorous testing, this issue seems to be independent of the
specific tools we run, and actually seems to still appear if we do not run any tools at
all. The process "python" is what is taking up all the memory, and the issue is
not instantaneous but happens over time. Restarting the server frees the memory
immediately.
Is this a known issue? If so, is there a known fix for it? Any insight on this would be
much appreciated, as it is complicating our efforts to automate long work-flows.
Thank you so much for your time
Josh Gross, Western Washington University.