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0 pointszepolen17y ago0 comments

> trying to get your site to handle traffic on a 3GB server and a 15GB server.

I find that I always hit cpu limits way before memory becomes an issue.

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diN0bot17y ago· 1 in thread

same here. i've been profiling this past week trying to see if i can trim cpu cycles or whether that's just how the game is played.

zepolenOP17y ago

The problem is template rendering, string handling is a (relatively) expensive process. I found utf8'ing my entire workflow (instead of decoding to unicode then reencoding to utf8) drastically affected performance (using python).

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