Django development server CPU intensive - how to analyse?

Question

I'm noticing that my django development server (version 1.1.1) on my local windows7 machine is using a lot of CPU (~30%, according to task manager's python.exe entry), even in idle state, i.e. no request coming in/going out. Is there an established way of analysing what might be responsible for this?

Thanks!

Martin

Answer 1

FWIW, you should do the profiling, but when you do I'll bet you find that the answer is "polling for changes to your files so it can auto-reload." You might do a quick test with "python manage.py runserver --noreload" and see how that affects the CPU usage.

Answer 2

Hit Control-C and crash the process. It will probably crash somewhere that it's spending a lot of time.

Or you could use a profiler.

Answer 3

http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html

That's the standard approach.