Re: Slow test startup under Django 1.7

2015-01-22 Thread Markus Holtermann
Hey Warren, this is a known problem in 1.7. It is fixed in 1.8 (see https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23745). Unfortunately, the changes made to reduce the amount of get_models() and render() calls are too invasive to backport them to 1.7. If you have the time, could you try running your p

Slow test startup under Django 1.7

2015-01-22 Thread Warren Smith
I'm in the process of converting a large legacy app from Django 1.5 to 1.7. I've got all the tests passing, so I'm researching an issue I noticed during the course of my work: Test startup takes MUCH longer under Django 1.7 than it did under 1.5. I've got a test that, when run by itself, took a