[tahoe-dev] weirdness-triggered logging and the "that was weird" button

[zooko]

Folks:

Brian's foolscap project [1] has a good idea in it: weirdness- 
triggered logging.

The problem is that you don't want to have too little detail in your  
logs when you are investigating something that has happened, but you  
don't want to have too much detail in your logs during normal operation.

The solution is that foolscap keeps circular buffers of recent events  
in memory, and upon detecting a sufficiently weird event, it dumps  
the contents of those circular buffers.  The result is that you have  
nice small quiet logs during normal operation, but you get plenty of  
detail surrounding weird stuff (including, crucially, about things  
that happened just *before* the weirdness was detected).

I was just noticing a problem (namely ticket #463), and it occurred  
to me that the foolscap logging system doesn't necessarily know that  
this is a problem, so it doesn't necessarily trigger more detailed  
logging.  Therefore, it would be cool to have a button on the wui  
labelled "that was weird".

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac

tickets mentioned in this e-mail:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/463 # directory isn't rendered  
at all sometimes