Remove __melange_queries logging It causes the local instance to become very slow, as it has to pickle all queries. A better solution would be to store them in the per request value store and then add middleware to store that data at end-of-request.

import os, sys
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.require('WebOb')