thanks to the awesome help of Ricardo Pedroso my performance increased by a factor of 100 (at least).
Well what were the problems: first of all my vserver cpu is very slow. (600MHz 1 Core) Which is just rediculous in those times my mobile phone has a faster processor. apache-modwsgi-web2py is pretty processor intensive especially if you ad a mod_pagespeed. what did we do (decending order of performance increase): we enabled a lot of caching, removed code from models to modules splitted controlers (from over 20 funktions to less than 7 each) compiled application used html instead of python helper functions The last thing we did was switching from apache to nginx: which is just awesome: just to show the diffrence I list some of our test results: after optimization in apache: apache bench: ab -n 100 -c 2 domain.com This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 ... Server Software: Apache/2.2.22 Document Path: / Document Length: 27429 bytes Concurrency Level: 2 Time taken for tests: 17.198 seconds Complete requests: 100 ... Requests per second: 5.81 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 343.961 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 171.981 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 158.22 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean [+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Processing: 138 343 81.8 332 639 Waiting: 138 341 82.3 328 638 Total: 138 343 81.8 332 639 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 332 66% 358 75% 365 80% 396 90% 456 95% 493 98% 634 99% 639 100% 639 (longest request) with nginx(and yes the size is smaller because I compressed the pngs) ab -n 100 -c 2 domain.com ... Server Software: nginx/1.1.19 ... Document Length: 25420 bytes Concurrency Level: 2 Time taken for tests: 10.821 seconds Complete requests: 100 ... Requests per second: 9.24 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 216.427 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 108.214 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 233.14 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean [+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Processing: 25 215 42.9 207 387 Waiting: 25 214 42.6 207 387 Total: 25 215 42.9 207 387 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 207 66% 210 75% 217 80% 265 90% 272 95% 278 98% 286 99% 387 100% 387 (longest request) webpagetest.org gives now results which are not that good but I suspect that it depends on their server cpu utilization a lot. and after I tried some other pages which I knew where good before I come to the conclusion that this site isn't reliable at all at the moment. loadimpact.com tells me that the server can handle 100 users at the same time before the server starts to fail. So a pretty good improvement. unfurtuanatly I don't have results from before from loadimpact. I hope it helps some people which are looking for more performance especially with slow cpus > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.