How do I prevent a Gateway Timeout with FastCGI on Nginx

Question

I am running Django, FastCGI, and Nginx. I am creating an api of sorts that where someone can send some data via XML which I will process and then return some status codes

Answer 1

If you use unicorn.

Look at top on your server. Unicorn likely is using 100% of CPU right now. There are several reasons of this problem.

• You should check your HTTP requests, some of their can be very hard.

• Check unicorn's version. May be you've updated it recently, and something was broken.