Tune mitxonline uWSGI settings based on application profile

[rhysyngsun]

See my writeup on how to approach this: https://github.com/mitodl/hq/discussions/393

The current settings on xPro (workers = 3, threads = 25) is probably a good starting point for values.

[JenniWhitman]

I think the optimal approach is to follow what work Ibrahim did in xPro to match Nathan's writeup - no point in reinventing the wheel and it looks like the approach was fairly simple. This involves:

1. Adding uwisgitop to the requirements
2. Adding locust to the requirements
3. identifying endpoints that will simulate a user's load

• This will likely look like loading:
  • home page
  • catalog
  • catalog with a couple of filters to simulate browsing
  • course page(s)
  • program page(s)
  • Login (this might be complex and has not changed, will confer with James or someone if I can't "Django" through this - will try to just grab and auth a django user in the locustfile and if that doesn't work, will bail)
  • dashboard load
  • IDEALLY we would also look at running some of the requests to and from edx, but this requires that running as expected. Will try locally and see how it behaves - again, won't waste a ton of time, to start I'm most interested in the home page loading of JUST the mitxonline application

4. Creating the locustfile.py for this - Ibrahim did not add an example file to xpro that I saw, but I plan to both to aid in quicker testing and as a breadcrumb for future tests
5. Run the test locally
6. Identify the best settings locally based on data
7. push to RC
8. Run in RC
9. identify settings there based on data
10. change settings

I plan to create one PR to add the requirements, example locustfile, and run the test locally. I'll add findings to this issue. Will then do the same in RC, adding findings to this issue, then will Have a separate, second PR which changes the settings for good + closes this issue, once we're satisfied with the result.

[pdpinch]

Creating the locustfile.py for this - Ibrahim did not add an example file to xpro that I saw, but I plan to both to aid in quicker testing and as a breadcrumb for future tests

@ibrahimjaved12 was working on ocw-studio. If he hasn't shared the file in that repo, he should.

Otherwise, this looks like the right plan. Let's get started!

[JenniWhitman]

I meant OCW 🤦 The locust file is in a comment on the PR, so I have his structure (thankfully! Hence why I expect this to be wrapped up so quickly), but i think the better breadcrumb moving forward would be to include things in a doc or example file. We have a docs folder on mitxonline, so I'm planning to make sure it's noted so we can "re-tune" quickly and easily in the future :)

[JenniWhitman]

This work helped identify performance issues on /catalog of the redesign. That is being tracked here: https://github.com/mitodl/hq/issues/2781. The completion of this work is pending changes to the catalog page and completion of that ticket. At that point I will rerun tests and we'll work with what we have then.

[pdpinch]

@JenniWhitman are you actively working on this? If not, we should move it back to in triage.

[JenniWhitman]

@pdpinch
No, I'm not actively working on it right now, I was waiting on completion of the catalog work, however, seeing as we're not making any more major API changes we COULD go back and rerun this/do some tuning.

[JenniWhitman]

(so, ready column over triage potentially)