what do your database and server logs show? are there slow query timeouts, deadlocks, etc? are these happening during peak load? 10-30 seconds looks more like an issue with competing locks or available workers, than potentially pool checkouts or lazy loading.
aside from db logs, i've found statsd very useful for debugging these sorts of things. we log both requests count/timing and hundreds of points in our codebase as well. -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.