6 seconds on a db connection (or query, btw) seems unlikely .... on this scale, even if it's true that most of the development platform (read, your home pc) are now faster than the various VPS lying around, when you coded that particular page you probably noticed a huge loading time in the first place.....
if out of the blue the performances are dropping it's usually because of deployment issues or "I've been slashdotted" scenarios. A concurrency scenario of 5 pages shouldn't lead to a 504 even on the poorest platform out there ("raspberrypi scale") -- --- 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.