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I'm running a database-backed web site that receives very little traffic. However, once or twice day, a request will timeout and I'll see this (or a similar) error in Nginx's error.log:

2013/06/13 18:32:40 [error] 16723#0: *27796 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out)
while reading response header from upstream, client: 199.71.215.214, server:
app.mypythonwebapp.com, request: "POST /api?submit_staker_response HTTP/1.1", upstream:
"uwsgi://unix:/var/run/uwsgi/app.mypythonwebapp.com-uwsgi.sock", host:
"app.mypythonwebapp.com", referrer:
"https://app.mypythonwebapp.com/survey/5/791/70ea73eb9a489f2dead804a95c400ab2"

I'm running uWSGI and there's nothing related to this at all (that I can tell) in its log file. I suspected it might be PostgreSQL related, but if I check its status via pg_stat_activity I see nothing out of the ordinary.

This is my uWSGI YAML config file:

uwsgi:
    socket: /var/run/uwsgi/%n-uwsgi.sock
    workers: 5
    buffer-size: 32768
    callable: app
    wsgi-file: /opt/sites/app.mypythonwebapp.com/run.py
    virtualenv: /opt/virtualenv/app.mypythonwebapp.com
    pythonpath: /opt/sites/app.mypythonwebapp.com

The server I'm on has two (virtualized) cores, so I did 1 + cores*2 to determine the number of workers. I also upped the buffer-size parameter to try to fix this but the error still occurs.

I'm not sure where to begin to debug this. I have little experience running uWSGI (or any Python WSGI implementation).

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  • I had the exact same problem yesterday, my problem was that on the uWSGI server I was out of file descriptors and Cassandra read latency was high and apparently uWSGI was closing the socket after waiting for the data. This might be a fair point to start.
    – APZ
    Commented Jun 14, 2013 at 23:27
  • Did you ever solve this?
    – gxx
    Commented Dec 28, 2016 at 18:13

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The option triggering the timeout (in nginx) is

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUwsgiModule#uwsgi_read_timeout

its default is 60 seconds, so if you request does not generate output in that timeslice nginx will close the connection.

If you do not see error in uWSGI (a part i suppose from the "broken pipe" as nginx disconnected) i would investigate why the generation is so slow

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  • I can't replicate this on my local computer, and I don't want to profile production requests. How would you investigate why the generation is so slow? Should I profile the requests?
    – skyler
    Commented Jun 17, 2013 at 13:47

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