William and Michael, 1. Its not clear from discussion around the topic that user_conf.py is applicable to newly created notebooks, so that explanation is very helpful. Thanks.
2. I think it might also be very helpful to have a configurable maximum number of snapshots - like the configurable maximum number of backups. I'm not sure how to implement that. Should I create an enhancement ticket? 3. I am getting identical snapshots (confirmed with diff) on unchanged worksheets. This is in 3.4rc0, and was fixed in 3.3 with http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5291 I've confirmed this fix in the source of my install. It'd be nice to have confirmation/denial from somebody else to determine if this is a real bug or just a local problem. 4. Worksheet code suggests saves are based on per-user time intervals, but my testing seems to suggest it is a notebook-wide setting that prevails. Consider sage: nb = load('/home/rob/.sage/sage_notebook/nb.sobj', compress=False) sage: nb.user("rob-test")['autosave_interval'] 3600 sage: nb.user("fcla")['autosave_interval'] 180 sage: nb.user("admin")['autosave_interval'] 540 sage: nb.conf()['save_interval'] 60 With this configuration, running as "admin" I get 60-second saves. At first the 540 looked unfamiliar, but I think that came from a drop- down box in the Settings area of the notebook interface (1,3,5,7,9 minute choices, IIRC). 5. I'm going to work up a patch right now for http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5371 I'll change the defaults in user_conf.py as proposed/discussed, but mostly I'll document that this is the wrong place to adjust an extant notebook. So its here for others who come later, I'll describe the process below, and include some of this in the documentation of user_conf.py. Timothy Clemans had a proposal in Summer 2008 on sage- devel to make some of this configurable via the notebook interface itself. That'd be nice/desirable for users not willing to run at the command line. ;-) 6. Here is a transcript at the sage command-line for adjusting existing notebook. Don't forget to save the changes! See documentation/source for sage.server.notebook.notebook.Notebook sage.server.notebook.server_conf sage: nb = load('/home/rob/.sage/sage_notebook/nb.sobj', compress=False) sage: type(nb) <class 'sage.server.notebook.notebook.Notebook'> sage: print nb.conf() Configuration: {'number_of_backups': 3, 'doc_pool_size': 128, 'save_interval': 30, 'idle_timeout': 0, 'word_wrap_cols': 72, 'email': False, 'idle_check_interval': 30} sage: nb.conf()['save_interval']=int(3600) sage: nb.conf()['number_of_backups']=int(2) sage: nb.conf()['max_history_length']=int(100) sage: nb.conf() Configuration: {'number_of_backups': 2, 'doc_pool_size': 128, 'save_interval': 3600, 'idle_timeout': 0, 'max_history_length': 100, 'word_wrap_cols': 72, 'email': False, 'idle_check_interval': 30} nb.save() Rob On Mar 7, 7:18 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > user_conf.py define the defaults only for a new sage notebook install. > That's why the above snipped of code works and stays working. > > I would be very happy with upping the default to 1 hour for save_interval. > Having a smaller interval is *only* an advantage if a user's notebook > server process crashes or is killed by a power outage or something -- > which doesn't happen that much. Even then, individual worksheet data > wouldn't be lost. > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
