FYI, this problem was caused by a packet filter installed on the box. Rather than delivering a "connection refused" right away, it was basically just not responding and so the connection had to time out.
TurboGears 0.8a4 includes a monkeypatch to CherryPy for this, that hopefully will get into a future CherryPy. Kevin On 10/21/05, Lee McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've noticed a couple of people in IRC complaining that their > start-<project>.py takes about a minute to start up. For one > individual an upgrade made it dissapear, for another I believe the > problem is still apparent. > > Possibly it's not the interaction with lighttpd, but an elusive bug? > Sorry for being so vague but it just seems like no coincidence you > said it takes about a minute to start as that is exactly what was said > in IRC.

