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35501	collectstatic takes more than an hour to complete	Suffiyan Arshad	nobody	"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"	Cleanup/optimization	closed	contrib.staticfiles	5.0	Normal	invalid	collectstatic		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	1	0