Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#264 new defect

Python load time is ridiculous

Reported by: ezyang Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: misc Keywords: python
Cc:

Description

If you strace say a Trac FastCGI, you will see Python stat a bazillion files before actually doing anything. This means 1+ second startup times for FastCGIs, and is exacerbated by our more aggressive FastCGI killing.

Change History (6)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

  • Keywords starter python added

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

See:

http://artificialcode.blogspot.com/2009/04/short-circuiting-python-module-lookup.html

geofft suggests demandimport may be useful.

We think this is exacerbated by the high number of Python packages we've installed (both via RPM and easy_install)

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

User which appears to be affected by this issue: https://help.mit.edu/Ticket/CallCenter.html?id=1793306

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by achernya

  • Keywords starter removed

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by adehnert

Anders pointed out on zephyr: "Hmm, is this better in Python 3.3? They appear to have flipped out and rewritten the import system using modern buzzword-compliant technology such as a “cache”. http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.3.html#importlib ". Interested bugfixers may wish to test with Python 3.3.

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by adehnert

  • Component changed from web to misc
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