Django site performance problem

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my mod_wsgi/django app has ~2s response time with or without memcached in-memory caching.

response is the same 2s with or without DNS resolution (i.e. with direct IP request)

for comparison, a simulaneously running mediawiki php process running with APC has sub-second response.

the machine is not out of memory and I can tell that memcached uses up some space.

I've seen the same django app run twice faster on some other machine (of which I unfortunately know little details, but it seems to be running on webfactional) my machine is dedicated host.

here is my apache directive to run the app

<VirtualHost ...:80>
     ServerAdmin ...
     DocumentRoot ...
     ServerName ..
     WSGIScriptAlias / /../wsgi-script.wsgi
     CustomLog ... common
     ErrorLog /.../error_log
     DirectoryIndex index.html
</VirtualHost>

EDIT ok found the source of the problem - wsgi was serving static files and that's what drained the performance. Some Alias-type directives for static content fix the issue.

add Alias directive to connect static files urls with a directory where your static files are. — Evgeny, Oct 12 '12 at 06:48

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '09 at 17:42

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Are you using the built-in development server? Last time I checked that wasn't really meant for production. Consider using Apache with mod_wsgi if that is the case. Here are the instructions.

answered Jul 28 '09 at 17:42

Kyle Brandt

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with both apache/wsgi and dev server. speed is the same, thanks – Evgeny Jul 28 '09 at 17:43

Django site performance problem

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