AWX API requests slow performance

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Hi, has anyone experienced poor performance when running web requests against Ansible AWX?

Running continual tests against the API - GET http:///api/v2/ping/ results in a poor level of response.

Throwing 1000 GET requests with a concurrency of 5 results in an average of 70-80 requests per second with an average 100ms per request. I’ve tested with the following setups :

AWX running on openshift 3.7 - Bare metal hosts - local postgres container.
AWX running on openshift 3.7 - Virtual hosts - remote postgres server
AWX running on docker - local postgres container.

AWX version is 1.0.6.41

Hosts are all in the same datacentre so no latency in regards to WAN etc.

Very little load on any of the hosts or the database with relatively new installations and no traffic on them.

Is there something throttling connections within the default awx setup?

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100ms is actually in-line with our expected baseline performance. For what it’s worth, we’d definitely like to cut that number at least in half but parts of the stack (django, DRF, etc) add a good bit of overhead to requests.