Glossary

• harakiri
• A feature of uWSGI that aborts workers that are serving requests for anexcessively long time. Configured using the harakiri family ofoptions. Every request that will take longer than the seconds specifiedin the harakiri timeout will be dropped and the corresponding workerrecycled.
• master
• uWSGI’s built-in prefork+threading multi-worker management mode,activated by flicking the master switch on. For all practical servingdeployments it is generally a good idea to use master mode.