I'm having an issue with, what I consider high memory usage, on a ExpressionEngine v2.5.3 install. This is a recent EE1 - EE2 upgrade if that makes a difference.
An empty template on this project uses 10MB of memory. I tested on another v2.5.3 project and an empty page there is using 2MB of memory. I'm seeing 30+MB usage on normal templates and frequently the browser loses its connection to the server.
Is an addon causing this increased memory usage? What's the best way to track this backwards?
The install is definitely acting up after this upgrade.
TEMPLATE DEBUGGING
(0.000011 / 9.01MB) - Begin Template Processing -
(0.000172 / 9.01MB) URI: test
(0.000185 / 9.01MB) Path.php Template: /
(0.000199 / 9.01MB) Retrieving Template
(0.000210 / 9.01MB) Parsing Template URI
(0.002112 / 9.02MB) Template Group Found: test
(0.002166 / 9.02MB) Retrieving Template from Database: test/index
(0.003599 / 9.02MB) Template Found
(0.003690 / 9.02MB) Template Type: webpage
(0.003711 / 9.02MB) Parsing Site Variables
(0.003767 / 9.02MB) Snippets (Keys): structure:is:page|structure:is:listing|structure:is:listing:parent|structure:page:entry_id|structure:page:template_id|structure:page:title|structure:page:slug|structure:page:uri|structure:page:url|structure:page:channel|structure:page:channel_short_name|structure:parent:entry_id|structure:parent:title|structure:parent:slug|structure:parent:uri|structure:parent:url|structure:parent:child_ids|structure:parent:channel|structure:parent:channel_short_name|structure:top:entry_id|structure:top:title|structure:top:slug|structure:top:uri|structure:top:url|structure:child_listing:channel_id|structure:child_listing:short_name|structure:freebie:entry_id|structure:child_ids|structure:sibling_ids|structure_1|structure_2|structure_3|structure_4|structure_5|structure_6|structure_7|structure_8|structure_9|structure_10|structure_last_segment|site_id|site_label|site_short_name|last_segment
(0.003784 / 9.02MB) Snippets (Values): FALSE||||||||||||||||||||||test|/test/|/test/||||||test||||||||||test|1|Ranch|default_site|test
(0.003926 / 9.02MB) Parse Date Format String Constants
(0.003943 / 9.02MB) Parse Current Time Variables
(0.003968 / 9.02MB) Parsing Segment, Embed, and Global Vars Conditionals
(0.007698 / 9.11MB) - Beginning Tag Processing -
(0.007719 / 9.11MB) - End Tag Processing -
(0.008645 / 9.12MB) Calling Extension Class/Method: Structure_ext/template_post_parse
(0.008789 / 9.11MB) - End Template Processing -
(0.008803 / 9.11MB) Parse Global Variables
(0.009574 / 9.11MB) Template Parsing Finished
Memory Usage: 10,163,144 bytes
It seems the answer to my question is ~9MB is a normal starting level for a blank template on an EE install.
The template which starts at 2MB is on an EngineHosting VPS/VSC account with APC bytecode caching enabled, hence the difference in numbers.