That depends on your web application and what it does.

Watch that talk I referenced, plus another talk I did the prior year:

http://lanyrd.com/2012/pycon/spcdg/

Graham

On 18/09/2013, at 11:06 AM, Fini Decima <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the response.
> 
> What, then, are the optimal settings for "processes=" and "threads="?
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:51:18 PM UTC-5, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> 
> On 18/09/2013, at 10:47 AM, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> You have a very poorly setup configuration. Your WSGI application can only 
>> handle one request at a time. If one request takes a long time to run, it 
>> will block out everything else and if it blocks for too long, it will 
>> timeout.
>> 
>> I would thus very much suggest not using processes=1 and threads=1 for 
>> daemon mode.
>> 
>> You could also be suffering issues due to third party C extension modules 
>> which will not working in sub interpreters and which block and cause process 
>> to hang, thus invoking mod_wsgi deadlock timeout.
>> 
>> I would suggest using:
>> 
>> WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
> 
> Oh, you already use:
> 
> application-group=%{GLOBAL}
> 
> to WSGIScriptAlias, which does the same things.
> 
> Because you are using process-group option to WSGIScriptAlias, then 
> WSGIProcessGroup is actually redundant.
> 
> Graham
> 
>> 
>> Also go watch:
>> 
>> http://lanyrd.com/2013/pycon/scdyzk
>> 
>> which explains various stuff about Apache configuration for mod_wsgi.
>> 
>> Graham
>> 
>> On 18/09/2013, at 9:13 AM, Fini Decima <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> What I've observed is that after every 3 or 4 page loads, the sites takes a 
>>> long time to load.  And after it loads, the process repeats itself.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Monday, September 16, 2013 9:29:47 PM UTC-5, Fini Decima wrote:
>>> I have an installation of MediaCore, a media serving application built atop 
>>> the Django framework I have i running on Apache2 using mod_wsgi.
>>> 
>>> Sometimes it works, other times, it also works, but it takes forever to 
>>> load, and I get some error messages in Apache's error file like these: =
>>> 
>>> <code>
>>> 
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] Script timed out before returning headers: 
>>> mediacore.wsgi, referer: http://IP-ADDR/
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] Script timed out before returning headers: 
>>> mediacore.wsgi, referer: http://IP-ADDR/
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] Script timed out before returning headers: 
>>> mediacore.wsgi, referer: http://IP-ADDR/
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] Script timed out before returning headers: 
>>> mediacore.wsgi, referer: http://IP-ADDR/
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] Script timed out before returning headers: 
>>> mediacore.wsgi
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] Script timed out before returning headers: 
>>> mediacore.wsgi, referer: http://IP-ADDR/
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] Script timed out before returning headers: 
>>> mediacore.wsgi, referer: http://IP-ADDR/
>>> [info] [client IP-ADDR] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: 
>>> core_output_filter: writing data to the network
>>> [info] [client IP-ADDR] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: 
>>> core_output_filter: writing data to the network
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] mod_wsgi (pid=25066): Exception occurred 
>>> processing WSGI script '/var/www/mediacore.wsgi'.
>>> [error] [client IP-ADDR] IOError: failed to write data
>>> [info] [client IP-ADDR] (32)Broken pipe: core_output_filter: writing data 
>>> to the network
>>> [info] [client IP-ADDR] (32)Broken pipe: core_output_filter: writing data 
>>> to the network
>>> 
>>> </code>
>>> 
>>> Even as I'm writing this, a video I clicked several minutes ago is still 
>>> trying to load.
>>> 
>>> Here's my media.wsgi file
>>> 
>>> <code>
>>> 
>>> activate_this = '/var/www/virtualECK/bin/activate_this.py'
>>> 
>>> execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> deployment_config = '/var/www/deployment.ini'
>>> 
>>> temp_dir = '/var/www/data/tmp'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # NOTE: Before running MediaCore, you will need to update the two paths
>>> 
>>> # above to point to the appropriate locations for your installation.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> import os
>>> 
>>> os.environ['TMPDIR'] = temp_dir
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> if __name__.startswith('_mod_wsgi_'):
>>> 
>>>     # Set up logging under mod_wsgi
>>> 
>>>     from paste.script.util.logging_config import fileConfig
>>> 
>>>     fileConfig(deployment_config)
>>> 
>>>     # Load the app!
>>> 
>>>     from paste.deploy import loadapp
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     application = loadapp('config:'+deployment_config)
>>> 
>>> </code>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> And here's my VirtualHost configuration:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <code>
>>> 
>>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>>> 
>>>         ServerAdmin *
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>         DocumentRoot /var/www
>>> 
>>>         # For best performance the number of processes should equal the 
>>> number of CPU
>>> 
>>>         # cores (but please note that each process may use about 500 MB 
>>> RAM).
>>> 
>>>         WSGIDaemonProcess eckmedia user=www-data group=www-data \
>>> 
>>>         processes=1 \
>>> 
>>>         threads=1 \
>>> 
>>>         display-name=%{GROUP} \
>>> 
>>>         python-path=/var/www/virtualECK/lib/python2.7/site-packages \
>>> 
>>>         python-eggs=/var/www/data/python-egg-cache
>>> 
>>>         WSGIProcessGroup eckmedia
>>> 
>>>         # Intercept all requests to /* and pass them to mediacore.wsgi
>>> 
>>>         WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/mediacore.wsgi process-group=eckmedia 
>>> application-group=%{GLOBAL}
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>         <Directory />
>>> 
>>>                 Options FollowSymLinks
>>> 
>>>                 AllowOverride None
>>> 
>>>         </Directory>
>>> 
>>>         <Directory /var/www/>
>>> 
>>>                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>>> 
>>>                 AllowOverride None
>>> 
>>>                 Order allow,deny
>>> 
>>>                 allow from all
>>> 
>>>         </Directory>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>         # Make all the static content accessible.  
>>> 
>>>         <Directory /var/www/eckmedia/mediacore/public/*>
>>> 
>>>                 Order allow,deny
>>> 
>>>                 Allow from all
>>> 
>>>                 Options -Indexes
>>> 
>>>                 WSGIScriptReloading On
>>> 
>>>         </Directory>
>>> 
>>>         ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
>>> 
>>>         LogLevel info
>>> 
>>> 
>>>         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
>>> 
>>> 
>>> </code>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> And in Apache2.conf, I have:
>>> 
>>> <code>
>>> 
>>> # prefork MPM
>>> 
>>> <IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
>>> 
>>>     StartServers          7
>>> 
>>>     MinSpareServers       5
>>> 
>>>     MaxSpareServers      10
>>> 
>>>     MaxClients          150
>>> 
>>>     MaxRequestsPerChild   0
>>> 
>>> 
>>> </IfModule>
>>> 
>>> </code>
>>> 
>>> Any ideas what could be causing the errors?
>>> 
>>> TIA
>>> 
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