[ckan-dev] millions of call_timing files

[David Read]

On 26 January 2011 18:24, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> * [2011-01-26 17:23:21 +0000] David Read <david.read at okfn.org> écrit:
>
> ] Ok sounds reasonable. Cheers,
>
> Actually, this is controlled by a config variable that
> defaults to off (or should at any rate). Is it only on
> the HMG servers that you're seeing millions of files?

I didn't spot the config option in the code or the config docs - do
add it if it is not clear. I checked for and saw the files on
hmg.ckan.net and eu3/ckan.net (although that is not the active one of
course).

> This brings up another point about coding style. For
> paste based apps, please always use
>
>      from paste.deploy.converters import asbool

Yes that's a useful one - we should use it more.

I saw a terrible one where the mere existence of the config key turned
on a feature, whatever you set it to!

> to check config variables not config.get("foo", None)
> because then you can't write confusing things in the
> config like
>
>       foo_feature = false
>
> to enable it!

Well I hope I didn't write something that allowed that! The docs
should be clear on all the existing features I've been involved with.

>
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