Sorry about that, here are those hardware details:

Ubuntu server 14.04.01
CPU: Intel Xenon X5660 @ 2.80Ghz (dual core)
RAM: 8GB


On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 10:00:47 AM UTC-6, Dave wrote:
>
> Actually, it looks like i was chasing the wrong issue... It wasn't https 
> after all.
>
> Everything seems to be working after changing this line in apache 
> default.conf:
>
> WSGIDaemonProcess web2py user=www-data group=www-data processes=1 threads=1
>
>
> to:
>
> WSGIDaemonProcess web2py user=www-data group=www-data processes=5 threads=15
>
>
>
> Is there any reason not to change this default setting from one-step 
> deployment?  Can I likely set these values higher based on my hardware?
>
> Thanks again,
> Dave
>
> On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 02:52:20 UTC-6, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>> uhm, you left out some pretty specific details.... what resources has the 
>> server web2py is deployed on ? moreover, what's the size of the file ? and 
>> what code are you using to handle the upload? are you using the default 
>> 'upload' Field or is it in conjunction with a 'blob' one to store the file 
>> on the database ?
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 4:59:29 AM UTC+2, Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I have this same behavior on multiple web2py servers.  If a large file 
>>> is being uploaded using a SQLFORM or downloaded using the default download 
>>> controller, over HTTPS, the entire web server becomes unresponsive until 
>>> the transfer is completed or cancelled.  However, I have no issues 
>>> uploading/downloading the same file over HTTP, which can also take several 
>>> minutes to complete, but the web server is still responsive during those 
>>> transfers.
>>>
>>> I am using the one-step deployment with Apache and a wildcard 
>>> certificate (RapidSSL).  Would switching to nginx or cherokee give better 
>>> performance for https file transfers, or is this likely an issue with the 
>>> SSL certificate format?  Or if the file transfers over HTTPS are too CPU 
>>> intensive, am i better off setting up multiple servers and a load balancer?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Dave R
>>>
>>>
>>>

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