I also found at that with fully cached pages, make sure the following is set as well:
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY = False
Otherwise, Django accesses request.session and the user table, resulting in a DB query for every request. With this setting to False, Django can run purely from cache,
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I also found at that with fully cached pages, make sure the following is set as well:
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY = False
Otherwise, Django accesses request.session and the user table, resulting in a DB query for every request. With this setting to False, Django can run purely from cache,