OpenERP debugging tip – turn off cron

While we’ve been doing a lot of OpenERP deployment we have been discovering various ways to configure it and one turns out to be very handy for debugging. If you’ve ever debugged OpenERP using the --debug flag and dropped into the debugger you have probably noticed the system carries on doing things while you’re sat at the debugger prompt. Often obliterating what you were looking at. This generally happens because OpenERP generally runs with multiple threads out of the box, and some of those threads do the ‘cron’ jobs, the background tasks, so even if you haven’t tried to do anything on the website, there will be activity. If you want to prevent the cron activity from making your debugging session more confusing than it needs to be add the --max-cron-threads=0 flag when you run OpenERP.