Django Tastypie slow POST response

Question

I'm trying to implement a Tastypie Resource that allows GET & POST operations following a per user-permission policy, the model is pretty simple (similar to the Note model in Tastypie documentation) and the resource itself is also pretty simple, I just have an extra override_urls method to implement search with Haystack.

My main problem now is that although running the project locally seems to be working fine, requests are fast and everything. Once I deployed the project (On Linode, using Nginx, Gunicorn, Runit), I discovered that POST requests are too slow, taking about a 1.1 min to come back with a 201 status. GET requests on the other hand are working well and as expected.

I ran a Python Hotshot profiler on the request and it's showing that the entire POST request is taking 0.127 CPU seconds. I'm not really sure what's happening here.

I should mention that I'm using ApiKeyAuthentication and DjangoAuthorization for my Tastypie resource.

Here's a screenshot from Chrome Inspector for the request: http://d.pr/i/CvCS

It would be great if anyone can direct me into the correct direction to look for an answer for this problem.

Thanks!

Edit:

Some code:

Models & Resource:

class Note(models.Model):
    timestamp = models.DateTimeField('Timestamp')
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    page_title = models.CharField("Page Title", max_length=200)
    url = models.URLField('URL', verify_exists=False)
    summary = models.TextField("Summary")
    notes = models.TextField("Notes", null=True, blank=True)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.page_title

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return self.url


class NoteResource(ModelResource):
    user = fields.ForeignKey(UserResource, 'user')

    class Meta:
        queryset = Note.objects.all()
        resource_name = 'note'
        list_allowed_methods = ['get', 'post']
        detail_allowed_methods = ['get']
        always_return_data = True
        authentication = ApiKeyAuthentication()
        authorization = DjangoAuthorization()
        # authentication = Authentication() #allows all access
        # authorization = Authorization() #allows all access

        ordering = [
            '-timestamp'
        ]

    def override_urls(self):
        return [
            url(r"^(?P<resource_name>%s)/search%s$" % (
                self._meta.resource_name, trailing_slash()),
                self.wrap_view('get_search'), name="api_get_search"),
        ]

    def obj_create(self, bundle, request=None, **kwargs):
        return super(NoteResource, self).obj_create(bundle,
                                                        request,
                                                        user=request.user)

    def apply_authorization_limits(self, request, object_list):
        return object_list.filter(user=request.user)

    def get_search(self, request, **kwargs):
        self.method_check(request, allowed=['get'])
        self.is_authenticated(request)

        sqs = SearchQuerySet().models(Note).filter(
                                        user=request.user
                                    ).auto_query(
                                        request.GET.get('q', '')
                                    )

        paginator = Paginator(sqs, 100)

        try:
            page = paginator.page(int(request.GET.get('page', 1)))
        except InvalidPage:
            raise Http404("Sorry, no results on that page.")

        objects = []

        for result in page.object_list:
            bundle = self.build_bundle(obj=result.object, request=request)
            bundle.data['score'] = result.score
            bundle = self.full_dehydrate(bundle)
            objects.append(bundle)

        object_list = {
            'objects': objects,
        }

        self.log_throttled_access(request)
        return self.create_response(request, object_list)

Gunicorn Conf:

bind = "0.0.0.0:1330"
workers = 1

Nginx Conf (included in the main nginx.conf):

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name domain.com example.com;
        access_log  /path/to/home/then/project/access.log;
        error_log /path/to/home/then/project/error.log;

        location / {
                proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1:1330;
        }

        location /static/ {
                autoindex on;
                root /path/to/home/then/project/;
        }
}

Answer 1

OP: Figured it out. In the main nginx.conf file (/etc/nginx/nginx.conf), turns out I had keepalive_timeout set on 65, which is considered too much. I switched it to 0 and everything worked ok.

Sorry, I spend a couple of minutes with this question, then realized there were more comments and then realized the OP did find a solution :( and did not mark it as answered.