Question

Is it possible to set DEBUG=False for only a specific app in Django? Celery has a known memory leak when debugging is enabled. I have a development server where I want Celery to run as a service, without debugging so it doesn’t leak memory, but I want the rest of my Django app to use debugging so errors will be shown when testing.

Answer 1

Celery doesn’t have a memory leak, it’s how Django works:

When DEBUG is enabled Django appends every executed SQL statement to django.db.connection.queries, this will grow unbounded in a long running process environment.

I guess you could use a hack like:

if "celeryd" in sys.argv:
    DEBUG = False