Comment 23 for bug 72815

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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote : Re: [Bug 72815] Re: Stop "rebalancing" karma, and base it on effort instead

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Curtis Hovey <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi. Stuart a quick dirty fix is tempting given that most blueprints
> never get implemented...they are wishlist items.
>
> But can we just turn off rebalancing? The karma-cache update script
> consumes a lot of memory and time; users reports bugs or ask questions
> about the momentary zero karma. would removing the balance step improve
> Launchpad's performance?

Change the setting to 1, but make sure people are warned - a lot of
peoples karma will drop hugely and that always causes fireworks. I
don't think the rebalancing is an issue on performance so no need to
rewrite the script.

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