Hi Nils... I +1 Diez's suggestion of paying attention the the database. What does your disk subsystem look like? What are the rest of the specs on the hardware?
Do you have an environment where you can simulate load and reproduce the problem? Without having to change things in a production environment? On Dec 2, 4:24 am, Nils - VODO <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need some help with sorting out our performance issues forhttp://vodo.net, > an online distribution site for free-to-share films. > > Our basic problem is that, under even slightly heavy load, turbogears > slows down a great deal. We don't see any of the typical signs of high > load. CPU and RAM usage are low, and mysql seems to have no trouble > dealing with the requests. Rather, it seems that something is blocking > all the turbogears threads. > > We are running the site under Nginx which handles all requests for the > website and serves static files from disk and cached files from > memcached. It also acts as a load balancer dividing requests between 3 > turbogears instances. > > We also have a bittorrent tracker and a bittorrent seeder running on > the same machine. The tracker handles somewhere upwards of 10 million > hits per day, although the size of most queries and responses is quite > small. > > We are putting out a new release on the 13th of December and need to > address this issue before then. For the last couple of releases we > have been forced to use static landing page and bypass turbogears but > we need to enable functionlity for this one. > > Please get in touch if you have experience with setting up high- > traffic sites using nginx, turbogears and memcached and let me know > your availability, costs and proposed scope for having a look at our > setup. Please keep in mind that we're a very small team and can't pay > a lot. More documentation is available as a PDF and you would get > access to the server to sort out any problems. > > Best Regards > Nils Hellberg > VODO > > http://vodo.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.
