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I agree that DB I/O is going to play a much larger part in the overall performance, but once you've addressed that there's still the potential to gain substantially from switching from Apache + mod_wsgi to something like gunicorn + gevent. On my site (which uses memcached to address the SQL bottleneck), I found a 13.5x performance increase after making this change. Setup and results here: http://cmyk.sevennineteen.com/blogs/code/running-django-gunicorn-webfaction/
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I agree that DB I/O is going to play a much larger part in the overall performance, but once you've addressed that there's still the potential to gain substantially from switching from Apache + mod_wsgi to something like gunicorn + gevent.
On my site (which uses memcached to address the SQL bottleneck), I found a 13.5x performance increase after making this change. Setup and results here:
http://cmyk.sevennineteen.com/blogs/code/running-django-gunicorn-webfaction/