django: Django + Gunicorn + nginx yields very poor performance. Can't get even 8 qps

dimanche 28 juin 2015

I am using nginx + gunicorn for serving a django app.

I have this view:

def hi(request):
    return HttpResponse('hi', content_type='text/plain')

mapped to url /hi/. So it basically just returns hi at [myurl]/hi.

Now when I load test this application from loader.io, this doesn't even pass the 250 clients over 30 secs test. (Approx 8 requests per second)

This is (part of) my nginx access.log file. It basically just gives 499s after few 200s. (Timeout in loader.io is set to 10 secs)

I must be doing something seriously wrong. How do I find out?

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