[openstack-dev] Can CONF change under me ?

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Sat Apr 20 23:58:55 UTC 2013


Matthew,

Correct. if the config file changes while the process is running, the
process does need a restart to pick up changes.

-- dims

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Matthew Sherborne <msherborne at gmail.com>wrote:

> If I read a CONF.some_setting, can I safely cache the result for the rest
> of the process runtime ?
>
> In other words, if the config file changes while the process is running,
> does the process need a restart in order to grok those changes ?
>
> I ask because, I want to speed up the scheduler filters, and if a filter
> is badly configured, I want to just take it out of the list of filters to
> check.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1171019
>
> Many Thanks,
> Matthew Sherborne
>
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