Django + FastCGI - randomly raising OperationalError

Question

I\'m running a Django application. Had it under Apache + mod_python before, and it was all OK. Switched to Lighttpd + FastCGI. Now I randomly get the following exception (ne

Answer 1

Smells like a possible threading problem. Django is not guaranteed thread-safe although the in-file docs seem to indicate that Django/FCGI can be run that way. Try running with prefork and then beat the crap out of the server. If the problem goes away ...