Umtauscher wrote:The three topmost python task are all "AppleCalenderServer 5.2.1"
Maybe I am not understanding this correctly, but they are all under 100MB. This doesn't seem much.
This is all normal Mac Server stuff and there is nothing updated from Apple side since this is 10.9.5
The only thing that gets updated are Indigo and the plugins.
I could upgrade the RAM, sure, but this would only buy me less that a week every 4 GB, unless I am misinterpreting the scenario.
In my opinion such a machine should be able to run for years without having to restart.
Take it up with Apple. The evidence is that it's not Indigo or plugins. It's the OS in general that's doing it. My guess is that it's client connections causing file system caching. The more stuff it's trying to cache due to file services (or whatever) the less room it's got for idle process memory, which it then has to swap. I'm guessing file sharing caching due to the high number of threads and ports that AppleFileServer is using.
And no, it wouldn't be linear growth. If these were memory leaks, then the process allocations would be growing. But they're not. So it's OS usage of the memory. Which will plateau at some point.
And you're running a really old OS without any of the more recent memory optimizations.