[Yt-dev] binaries

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 11:59:35 PST 2009


Back at my desk:

change line 530 in Lib/locale.py in Python-2.6.1 to return None instead of "".

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, about that, I still cannot get it to run the the compute nodes, at least I can't get matplotlib to import. Perhaps I did something wrong in my install. I'm going to work on something else today and perhaps come back to Kraken on the weekend. But I can import numpy and tables (not shown), which is good.
>>
>
> This is a bug I was able to fix by googling.  You have to manually
> patch your matplotlib (I guess this patch slipped through our
> fingers?) to return None for a locale or something.  It's on google,
> but I'm on my phone.
>
>> You're unlikely to get slashdotted, but that 7TB limit is a pipe dream. Shared hosting resource limits, because CPU usage limits are hard and relatively low, are unattainable. But you probably already knew that...
>
> The point was not to engage in pipe dreams, but rather to indicate
> that if we start hosting huge files, we will still have bandwidth to
> spare.  Our target here is not high-CPU cost requests, but low-cost,
> high-size requests.
>



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