This is exactly the sort of issue that celery was created to solve. It is a task queue management system.
http://celeryproject.org/ Alex On Aug 14, 1:28 pm, ydjango <traderash...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a online user initiated synchronous process which runs anywhere > between 1-5 minutes and gives user status message at the end. It is a > very DB intensive process that reads and updates lots of mysql rows > and does many calculations. The process is run as part of a view > method. > > It causes nginx to time out after 2-3 minutes with following message - > "upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response > header from upstream". User sees 504 gateway error on his browser. > > 1) How can I prevent time out. Can I ping the server via ajax or > something to prevent time out. > 2) How can I display to user - progress bar or in progress indicator - > so that user can wait 3 - 5 minutes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
