Quote from: toolbag on June 07, 2013, 10:31:07 PM

Is there any way for Abe to not update the database with the latest transactions? Running in FastCGI mode, most requests take a long time to return a result because Abe is reading the most recent transactions and inserting them into the database. I know I can start in standalone mode, but then what's the point of FastCGI mode at all? Ideally what I'd like to do is have a process that runs in the background loading new transactions, sleeping for a few seconds or minutes, and loading again, forever. And the FastCGI side of things would just be a user interface to the back-end database, basically. Is that possible? Am I missing something obvious?

You are on the right track. I ought to be typing this into a new "readme-server.txt" file. Try "datadir=[]" in your FastCGI config to disable loading, and "no-serve" in the loader config to disable serving.