I just ran into the same problem. Have you solved it yet? Does anyone know how to solve this time out problem on Heroku? Thanks
On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 7:50:48 PM UTC+2, Evan Cordulack wrote: > > I have Mezzanine-powered site running on Heroku and hooked up to Amazon S3 > to serve static files. To interact with S3, I have set up django-storages > using the S3boto backend. For the most part, this setup is working well. (I > really happy with Mezzanine!) > > However, when uploading content, I started to notice a problem with the > media browser. When browsing a directory of images using the Media Library, > the request will stop. This only happens for directories that have a fair > number of images--10 or so images won't cause a problem, but 100 will. This > problem appeared only after switching to django-storages. > > After having issues with this using Heroku and locally running Foreman, I > tried Django's server locally (manage.py runserver). It turned out that the > media browser would eventually open, but it took a very long time. Based on > Heroku's documentation, this seems to make sense that that these requests > would not finish before Heroku stops the request from completing. > > I then enabled logging for Boto. The log files it was generating were very > large (25-50 MB) filled mostly with XML concerning the images in my S3 > bucket. These log files were generated when loading the main media browser > page in the admin (the one that lists all your directories) as well as > browsing individual directories from a specific page type. I had hoped that > this might be something with the number of items returned per page, but > lowering > the FILEBROWSER_LIST_PER_PAGE > option<https://django-filebrowser.readthedocs.org/en/3.5.2/settings.html#settings>changed > the number of items displayed, but did not speed solve anything. > > I haven't been able to track down other people posting about this problem, > but I did find these threads about django-storages: > > > https://bitbucket.org/david/django-storages/issue/178/storageexists-s3boto-storages-is-making-a > > https://bitbucket.org/david/django-storages/issue/186/the-size-property-is-eating-gigs-of-ram > > I was hoping someone might have some suggestions about the next steps to > get this working or point me in the right direction. Should I look into > filebrowser_safe? django-storages? > > Thanks! > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
