I'm unsure what you mean - do you mean "are we executing raw SQL queries 
and a Python db api, or using Django's ORM?"   If so, usually the latter 
but this is definitely not a problem of poorly written queries, we've 
profiled them.

- Andy

On Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 17:44:45 UTC [email protected] wrote:

> are you using django directly to run the queries or are you querying the 
> db. I had a similar problem a while back with a project and the load was 
> resolved by letting python do the work.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 at 15:23, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're maintaining an application that is hitting scaling problems.   It 
>> helps run grass-roots sporting events all over Europe, so Saturdays can 
>> produce large and unpredictable loads, with both logged-in users and public 
>> viewers. Despite a powerful server seemingly being lightly loaded (htop 
>> suggests just 3-6 out of24 cores typically busy, and free memory 
>> available), it often "hangs" for long periods - simple requests return 
>> after 10sec, and at times we have had to restart nginx.   
>>
>> If anyone here has experience of this configuration under high loads, 
>> we'd be keen to hire an experienced expert to review and check we are not 
>> doing anything stupid with our nginx or uwsgi configuration.  
>>
>> Likewise, if you really know how to cache Django with nginx, and work 
>> around the various cookies and language settings so that logged-in pages 
>> still work but anonymous ones can be cached, we'd love to get a bit of 
>> help  
>>
>> Architecture is ubuntu 18.04, Django 3.0.12, with MariaDB and Mongo back 
>> ends used for slightly different things.
>>
>> Feel free to contact me by private email if you,
>>
>> Otherwise, if people have suggestions and questions here, I'll try to 
>> share what I can and am very grateful for any help...
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>>
>> Andy Robinson
>>  
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