I am not ruling it out. I believe some people are having the problem but not everybody has having this problem. I am trying help isolate the possible causes.
You said: "I moved to apache/WSGI from Rocket. For me the problem disappears." therefore your problem is not the same that some other problems experienced with apache/WSGI. You also said you cache.ram all requests. Can you try remove the caching? Any improvement? Massimo On Jul 21, 7:57 am, Kuba Kucharski <kuba.kuchar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:54 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > >> On the other hand, Kuba, who started this thread, later said "I moved to > >> apache/WSGI from Rocket. For me the problem disappears." So I guess there > >> is a standalone rule #5: Use apache/WSGI etc. instead of the built-in > >> Rocket ? > > > I do not think it is a web server issue as much as an issue with > > limited available resources. 9/10 of requests are for static pages. If > > you use apache+mod_wsgi these are served by apache (which is coded in > > C) and not by web2py (which is coded in Python). This means that 9/10 > > of http requests suddenly run 10 faster and reduce cpu usage. > > still, there must be some webserver issue, you are ruling it out to > fast, Massimo. the reason is problems described by me happens even > under MINIMAL load - one person clicking on the webpage. the others > will tell you the same. > > -- > Kuba