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George-Cristian Muraru edited this page Jan 2, 2021 · 4 revisions

THIS SHOULD BE DONE ONLY ONCE - AT DEPLOYMENT TIME

Settings file

The settings file can be found in interface/settings.py. In that file, there are specified different variables that are used at runtime to control a specific behavior.

Variables List

  • DEBUG - used for debugging purposes - NOT intended to be used in production
  • PROFILE - used for profiling - NOT intended to be used in production - silk it is used for this
  • BLOCK_SIZE - the size of a chunk of data, it is used when downloading a homework
  • EVALUATOR_BACKEND - select what to use when spinning up the machines for evaluating a homework
  • VMCK_API_URL - used when a new assignment is sent by the student to correctly create the POST request
  • ACS_INTERFACE_ADDRESS - used for constructing the callback URL that a machine would call when the homework finished testing
  • MANAGER_MEMORY - memory used by a container to run the evaluation script - NOTE: this is not the memory used by the machine where the assignment would run.
  • MANAGER_MHZ - MHz used by a container to run the evaluation script - NOTE: this is not the CPU power used by the machine where the assignment would run.
  • MANAGER_TAG - tag (== branch) used by the container to run the evaluation script
  • SUBMISSIONS_PER_PAGE - how many submissions to show on a page (used by the pagination component)
  • FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE - the maximum size that a zip archive (contains the assignment) could be
  • MOSS_USER_ID - used by the plagiarism detection tool for authentification
  • APP_THREAD_COUNT - number of threads to be by the waitress (this component responds to user requests)
  • CHECK_INTERVAL_SUBS - the interval used for querying the status of the assignments that were sent to be evaluated
  • TOTAL_MACHINES - number of submissions to be sent to be evaluated - Note: if there are multiple instances of acs-interface then there will be a total of TOTAL_MACHINES * nr_instances assignments sent to be evaluated
  • SENDTRY_DSN - used for reporting possible problems that might happen in PRODUCTION - https://sentry.io/welcome/
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