Do you have any caching in front of things?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Chris Curvey <ccur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When my Django system is under heavy load (system CPU > 90%), I start
> getting complaints from users that their authentication changes in the
> middle of a session.  For example:
>
> 1) Bob logs in to the site.  The site says "Hello Bob" at the top of
> each page.
> 2) Bob uses the site for a while without incident
> 3) Bob notices that the top of the page now says "Hello Steve".
>
> The problem is intermittent, and I can't duplicate it (but I have seen
> it with my own eyes).  I'm running Django 1.2.5 on Windows, with
> SessionMiddleware installed.  I have django.contrib.sessions in my
> INSTALLED_APPS, and I believe that I'm using database-backed sessions,
> with a MySQL database.
>
> The only "odd" thing that I'm doing is that I have four instances of
> Apache running, with my Django app running via mod_wsgi in each of
> them.  There is another apache server in front that does load-
> balancing, so multiple requests from a single user may get routed to
> different apache instances (which is what I want, to get maximum
> throughput on Ajax calls).  But I thought that having the sessions be
> database-backed would deal with this (multiple session requests can
> hit the database at the same time).
>
> Any thoughts?  I'm sorry this is such a lousy, unrepeatable case.
>
> P.S.  I have looked at http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1180,
> which says that this issue has been fixed, but I can't tell if this is
> the same issue or not.
>
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