[Yt-dev] proposal: turning off parameter file storage by default

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 15:15:10 PST 2011


On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> There have been some recent issues that have popped up when parameter file storage is used when accessing different parameter files at the same time in a parallel job.  While the long term solution is to move to something thread-safe like sqlite, I am of the opinion that for now we should turn off this capability by default.  We would leave the capability in there, and it would be turned on with:
> from yt.config import ytcfg; ytcfg["yt", "storeparameterfiles"] = "True"
> at the very top of a yt script.  Since this could disrupt some people's workflows, I think a +/-1 would be helpful, along with any strong opinions.

+1, and note that if you want it on permanently, ~/.yt/config with the
storeparameterfiles setting set to true also works.

-Matt

> Thanks,
> Sam
>
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