And what happens if you actually supply a content length in your response?
2008/7/22 Tibor Arpas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I'm quite new to python and I ran into a performance problem with > wsgiref.simple_server. I'm running this little program. > > from wsgiref import simple_server > > def app(environ, start_response): > start_response('200 OK', [('content-type', 'text/html')]) > return ['*'*50000] > > httpd = simple_server.make_server('',8080,app) > try: > httpd.serve_forever() > except KeyboardInterrupt: > pass > > > I get many hundreds of responses/second on my local computer, which is fine. > But when I access this server through our VPN it performs very bad. > > I get 0.33 requests/second as compared to 7 responses/second when > accessing 50kB static file served by IIS. > > I also tried the same little program using paste.httpserver and that > version works fast as expected. > > I cannot really understand this behavior. My only thought is that the > wsgiref version is sending the data in many chunks, and therefore the > latency of the VPN comes into play. But I don't really know how to > test this. > > This is Python 2.5.2 on Windows Server 2003 (same behavior on Windows > XP), testing with Apache AB as well as Firefox... > > Any help would be appriciated. > > Tibor > _______________________________________________ > Web-SIG mailing list > Web-SIG@python.org > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/graham.dumpleton%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com