From 3281fb2b038c4a6c85255721f6c5d15999a82020 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ed Morley <501702+edmorley@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:57:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't enable gunicorn's `preload_app` in development

Since otherwise it interferes with `reload = True`.

See:
https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/settings.html#reload

GUS-W-17614098.
---
 gunicorn.conf.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gunicorn.conf.py b/gunicorn.conf.py
index b4a74620d..f17967105 100644
--- a/gunicorn.conf.py
+++ b/gunicorn.conf.py
@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@
 # Each `gthread` worker process will use a pool of this many threads.
 threads = 5
 
-# Load the app before the worker processes are forked, to reduce memory usage and boot times.
-preload_app = True
-
 # Workers silent for more than this many seconds are killed and restarted.
 # Note: This only affects the maximum request time when using the `sync` worker.
 # For all other worker types it acts only as a worker heartbeat timeout.
@@ -63,6 +60,10 @@
     # Automatically restart gunicorn when the app source changes in development.
     reload = True
 else:
+    # Load the app before the worker processes are forked, to reduce memory usage and boot times.
+    # We don't enable this in development, since it's incompatible with `reload = True`.
+    preload_app = True
+
     # Use `SO_REUSEPORT` on the listening socket, which allows for more even request
     # distribution between workers. See: https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/
     # We don't enable this in development, since it makes it harder to notice when