504 gateway timeout flask socketio - flask

I am working on a flask-socketio server which is getting stuck in a state where only 504s (gateway timeout) are returned. We are using AWS ELB in front of the server. I was wondering if anyone wouldn't mind giving some tips as to how to debug this issue.
Other symptoms:
This problem does not occur consistently, but once it begins happening, only 504s are received from requests. Restarting the process seems to fix the issue.
When I run netstat -nt on the server, I see many entries with rec-q's of over 100 stuck in the CLOSE_WAIT state
When I run strace on the process, I only see select and clock_gettime
When I run tcpdump on the server, I can see the valid requests coming into the server
AWS health checks are coming back succesfully
EDIT:
I should also add two things:
flask-socketio's server is used for production (not gunicorn or uWSGI)
Python's daemonize function is used for daemonizing the app

It seemed that switching to gunicorn as the wsgi server fixed the problem. This legitimately might be an issue with the flask-socketio wsgi server.

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http {
server {
...
location #django {
...
# Set timeout to 1 hour
proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
...
}
...
}
}
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