collectstatic takes more than an hour to complete

[Suffiyan Arshad]

Hey everyone,

Might seem rookie but for some reason my collectstatic takes more than an hour to complete. Some details: the static files are stored on the same VM as the app, theres no s3 or any such service connected. I looked for solutions online and found collectfast but wanted to come here and see if theres anything wrong with my config:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

if not DEBUG:

# Tell Django to copy statics to the staticfiles directory
# in your application directory on Render.
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')

# Turn on WhiteNoise storage backend that takes care of compressing static files
# and creating unique names for each version so they can safely be cached forever.
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'

pretty boilerplate configs

Any suggestions regarding this would be really helpful.
Thank you

[Mariusz Felisiak]

This is not a release blocker but a support question and Trac is not a support channel.