Made the interval between upkeeps configurable.

scripts/supybot

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def main():
     import world
     import drivers
     import schedule
-    schedule.addPeriodicEvent(world.upkeep, 300)
+    world.upkeep()
     world.startedAt = started
     while world.ircs:
         try:

src/conf.py

@@ -345,6 +345,11 @@ supybot.register('pingInterval', registry.Integer(120, """Determines the
 number of seconds between sending pings to the server, if pings are being sent
 to the server."""))
 
+supybot.register('upkeepInterval', registry.PositiveInteger(300, """Determines
+the number of seconds between running the upkeep function that flushes
+(commits) open databases, collects garbage, and records some useful statistics
+at the debugging level."""))
+
 supybot.register('flush', registry.Boolean(True, """Determines whether the bot
 will periodically flush data and configuration files to disk.  Generally, the
 only time you'll want to set this to False is when you want to modify those

src/world.py

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ import log
 import conf
 import drivers
 import ircutils
+import schedule
 
 startedAt = time.time() # Just in case it doesn't get set later.
 
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ def upkeep():
             log.info('%s Flushers flushed and garbage collected.', timestamp)
         else:
             log.info('%s Garbage collected.', timestamp)
+    schedule.addEvent(upkeep, time.time() + conf.supybot.upkeepInterval())
     return collected
 
 def makeDriversDie():