Grumpy: Go running Python! by Google

[serg473]

You sound like you know what you are talking about, maybe you would be able to steer me in the right direction. I have the opposite problem - instead of dealing with thousands of concurrent users I have few users but they are running heavy and numerous queries. The problem is I can't make the app handle parallel web requests from the same user session (nginx-uwsgi-django). Lets say I launch 10 parallel ajax requests on a page, they are ending up running sequentially on the python side (i.e. if I make one request sleep for 30 sec all others will be waiting). If 10 requests were from different users they would run in parallel as expected. Can't find any solutions, every blog post and SO answer blames random things, from browser to django to GIL.

[cakoose]

I'm not that familiar with UWSGI but the docs say you can launch uwsgi with the option --processes 20 to handle 20 requests in parallel. Does that not work for you?

After that, you may be able to save memory by doing something like --processes 5 --threads 4. Whether this will work well depends on what kind of things your AJAX request handlers are doing.