[Zope-dev] Logging of ConflictError

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 2 Dec 2005, at 14:16, Chris Withers wrote:
>> Please no. Don't put anything at INFO. A conflict error is either   
>> something normal that should be at level BLATHER or below, or an   
>> ERROR that a sysadmin wants to see logged as such.
>
> Not so. If I'm getting 1,000 resolved conflict errors a day, that  
> can be a big performance hit, and there are those of us who have  
> hard performance targets to meet ;-) Turning on debug logging is,  
> in itself, a performance hit, so I don't want to have to do that on  
> a production service where I want to observe the number of conflict  
> errors occurring over a long period of time, like, say, a month.

I agree with this argumentation. It is true that conflicts are a  
normal part of operation, as we all like to tell people who are  
scared/confused by them, but if you see so many that it bothers you  
seeing it at INFO level you know you have a problem that needs fixing.

Same is true for the panicking sysadmins that call up the developers.  
If they call because of that they should have gotten better training  
before starting to admin Zope setups, or they shouldn't be doing it  
at all.

jens