Rails 3.2.8 production site 10x slower than development site

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I have a live production site (production mode) running alongside a test
site running in development mode. They both run on the same machine,
using Rails 3.2.8. If I request a page on the production site, it takes
approximately 4-5 seconds to load the page. If I request the same page
on the test site it takes (only) about 0.5 seconds. A major difference
of 10x. Always thought that production would be faster than development
:frowning: If I reload the page on the production site the load times stay the
same.

This behaviour is with Apache 2 + Phusion Passenger, Litespeed and even
Webbrick. So it most probably is something Rails related. But I can not
put my finger on it. Since the production log tell me the pages are
rendered quickly, but it takes a hell of a lot of time before the page
appears on my screen.

What is going on? How can I debug this problem? Because as of now the
production site is way too slow even without any traffic.

Kind regards,

Nick

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On 6 September 2012 20:21, Nick S. [email protected] wrote:

Webbrick. So it most probably is something Rails related. But I can not
put my finger on it. Since the production log tell me the pages are
rendered quickly, but it takes a hell of a lot of time before the page
appears on my screen.

What is going on? How can I debug this problem? Because as of now the
production site is way too slow even without any traffic.

The differences between the two modes are the differences between the
files in config/environments. You could incrementally move from one
mode to the other to find which change is the one causing the problem.

Colin