Gunicorn worker timeout
django, gunicorn, nginx, timeout
Solution
I had the same issue using Gunicorn, nGinx, Django and Requests
every time I did:
response = requests.get('http://my.url.com/here')
the workers would timeout
I solved the problem by switching from Syncronous (sync) workers to Asynchronous (eventlet) workers.
if you are launching command line add:
-k 'eventlet'
if you are using a config file add:
worker_class = "eventlet"
Problem
I have a Django application running in Gunicorn behind Nginx. Everything works fine, exect for one strange thing: I have a "download" view and a RESTful json API. When call the download view I use urllib2 to access the json API to get information. And excactly when I try to do this http get request to the json api, the request times out with an error HTTP Error 504: Gateway Time-out. When I run the code with ./manage.py runserver everything works fine. The http get request to the json api also only takes a few miliseconds, so no danger of running into a timeout. Here the Situation in Pseudo code: myproject/views.py: (accessible as: http://myproject.com/download) ``` 1 def download(request, *args, **kwargs): 2 import urllib2 3 opener = urllib2.build_opener() 4 opener.open('http://myproject.com/api/get_project_stats') ``` The `opener.open()` call in line four runs into a timeout when running in Gunicorn, when running with `./manage.py runserver`everytihng works fine (and the api call only takes a few miliseconds. Has anyone had the same problem? And more important: How have you solved it?