Django persistent database connection

Question

I'm using django with apache and mod_wsgi and PostgreSQL (all on same host), and I need to handle a lot of simple dynamic page requests (hundreds per second). I faced with problem that the bottleneck is that a django don't have persistent database connection and reconnects on each requests (that takes near 5ms). While doing a benchmark I got that with persistent connection I can handle near 500 r/s while without I get only 50 r/s.

Anyone have any advice? How to modify django to use persistent connection? Or speed up connection from python to DB

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Django 1.6 has added persistent connections support (link to doc for latest stable Django ):

Persistent connections avoid the overhead of re-establishing a connection to the database in each request. They’re controlled by the CONN_MAX_AGE parameter which defines the maximum lifetime of a connection. It can be set independently for each database.