Before respond properly, can you tell me how you are you setting up
rest of the configuration? Are you using WSGIScriptAlias for a
directory of files, or are you only allowing a single mounted WSGI
application using WSGIScriptAlias?

Graham

On 30 August 2010 20:05, virgil.balibanu <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a server where user can connect to and create their own
> websites automatically. For this I use mod_wsgi in daemon mode with
> predefined users for processes. Each site runs on it's own process.
> The configuration file looks like this:
> WSGIDaemonProcess site-1 user=site-1 group=nobody maximum-requests=300
> inactivity-timeout=300
> WSGIDaemonProcess site-2 user=site-2 group=nobody maximum-requests=300
> inactivity-timeout=300
> WSGIDaemonProcess site-3 user=site-3 group=nobody maximum-requests=300
> inactivity-timeout=300
> ... (with a lot of lines like these ones)
> WSGIProcessGroup %{ENV:PROCESS_GROUP}
> WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
> I also use nginx as a front-end server for serving static files and I
> proxy other requests to apache.
> My problem is that whenever a process has been closed due to
> inactivity and it needs to start again it would take around 5s if it
> is the only one starting then, and can get to a lot more if I have 10
> or 20 processes starting at the same time. Also this time can go over
> my limits set in nginx configuration for timeout and I could get a 504
> response from nginx. I need to use inactivity-timeout because I have
> around 600 processes at the moment and the number is increasing and
> each process uses around 20 to 25 MB of memory, so I would run out of
> memory and get to use the swap if I did not use use it. I also use
> maximum-requests in order to keep the process memory lower.
> I am looking for any idea that would help me start a process faster,
> or improve memory consumption. From what I understand this is because
> each process has to load python and django thus the memory and time. I
> there any way to improve this? How does WSGIProcessGroup and
> ApplicationGroup help, are there better settings?
> Also I would like to know if there are any apache options that I need
> to play with?
> RLimitMEM 205024597
> RLimitCPU 240
> KeepAlive On
> MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
> KeepAliveTimeout 15
> Do I need to change add anything else, like # MaxSpareServers,
> MinSpareServers, StartServers
>
> Thank you,
> Virgil Balibanu
>
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