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[Janos Gyerik <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Mike,

As a follow up, I made Jono kill the settings.py, sorry about that.

So it seems the collectstatic command is running heavy sometimes. It's hard
to tell why, because it's supposed to be a pretty harmless thing, it just
copies files, doesn't even go near the database.

However, I did notice something not good in the sample settings, namely the
project's directory (in the DIRNAME) variable was in the list of
STATICFILES_DIRS, and as a result the entire project would be copied to
whatever you configured in STATIC_ROOT. This is bad. I removed it from the
sample and please remove it from the server.

I hope this improves things, and hopefully collectstatic will run lighter
now. Please give it a try. *And please wipe out the STATIC_ROOT first to
remove unnecessary files.*

Gabriel, we should improve the sample setup, because it is still copying
too many files. I see the entire *-accomplishments collections are copied
there, when the gallery only needs the trophyimages subdir. I'm thinking
that maybe we can implement a
django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder which will find
ACCOMPLISHMENTS_ROOT/**/ubuntu-*/trophyimages and copy the
ubuntu-*/trophyimages part only. What do you think?

Thanks,
Janos


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Janos Gyerik <info@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Jono,
>
> 40 * * * * cd /var/www/gallery/; python manage.py collectstatic
> --noinput --settings settings > /dev/$
>
> Is that the complete line?
> Are you sure the process eating up so much resources was "python
> manage.py collectstatic" and not some other "python manage.py"
> command? I cannot think of anything with collectstatic, it should be
> really harmless. On the other some other commands might be heavier,
> like import_accomplishments or import_trophies, though I'm surprised a
> server should break a sweat...
>
> In any case hard to say much without access to the server, so Mike is
> in the best position to investigate.
>
> Janos
> --
> Janos Gyerik
> http://titan2x.com/



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