old_contents: """
  The aim of this configuration is to run a local htex
  in a similar manner to htex_local.py, but with lots of
  options different and more complicated than in that
  configuration, so that more code paths are executed
  than when testing only with htex_local.
  
  It does not matter too much *what* is different in this
  configuration; what matters is that the differences
  cause significantly different pieces of parsl code to be
  run - for example, by turning on monitoring, by allowing
  blocks to be started by a strategy, by using a different
  set of staging providers, by using timing parameters that
  will cause substantially different behaviour on whatever
  those timing parameters control.
  """
  
  # imports for monitoring:
  # import logging
  # from parsl.monitoring import MonitoringHub
  
  import os
  
  from parsl.providers import LocalProvider
  from parsl.channels import LocalChannel
  from parsl.launchers import SingleNodeLauncher
  
  from parsl.config import Config
  from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
  
  
  from parsl.data_provider.http import HTTPInTaskStaging
  from parsl.data_provider.ftp import FTPInTaskStaging
  from parsl.data_provider.file_noop import NoOpFileStaging
  
  working_dir = os.getcwd() + "/" + "test_htex_alternate"
  
  config = Config(
      executors=[
          HighThroughputExecutor(
              label="htex_Local",
              working_dir=working_dir,
              storage_access=[FTPInTaskStaging(), HTTPInTaskStaging(), NoOpFileStaging()],
              worker_debug=True,
              cores_per_worker=1,
              heartbeat_period=2,
              heartbeat_threshold=5,
              poll_period=3000,
              provider=LocalProvider(
                  channel=LocalChannel(),
                  init_blocks=0,
                  min_blocks=0,
                  max_blocks=5,
                  launcher=SingleNodeLauncher(),
              ),
          )
      ],
      strategy='simple',
      app_cache=True, checkpoint_mode='task_exit',
      retries=2)
  #   monitoring=MonitoringHub(
  #                    hub_address="localhost",
  #                    hub_port=55055,
  #                    logging_level=logging.INFO,
  #                    resource_monitoring_interval=1,
  #                ),
  
new_contents: """
  The aim of this configuration is to run a local htex
  in a similar manner to htex_local.py, but with lots of
  options different and more complicated than in that
  configuration, so that more code paths are executed
  than when testing only with htex_local.
  
  It does not matter too much *what* is different in this
  configuration; what matters is that the differences
  cause significantly different pieces of parsl code to be
  run - for example, by turning on monitoring, by allowing
  blocks to be started by a strategy, by using a different
  set of staging providers, by using timing parameters that
  will cause substantially different behaviour on whatever
  those timing parameters control.
  """
  
  # imports for monitoring:
  # import logging
  # from parsl.monitoring import MonitoringHub
  
  import os
  
  from parsl.providers import LocalProvider
  from parsl.channels import LocalChannel
  from parsl.launchers import SingleNodeLauncher
  
  from parsl.config import Config
  from parsl.executors import HighThroughputExecutor
  
  
  from parsl.data_provider.http import HTTPInTaskStaging
  from parsl.data_provider.ftp import FTPInTaskStaging
  from parsl.data_provider.file_noop import NoOpFileStaging
  
  working_dir = os.getcwd() + "/" + "test_htex_alternate"
  
  config = Config(
      executors=[
          HighThroughputExecutor(
              label="htex_Local",
              working_dir=working_dir,
              storage_access=[FTPInTaskStaging(), HTTPInTaskStaging(), NoOpFileStaging()],
              worker_debug=True,
              cores_per_worker=1,
              heartbeat_period=2,
              heartbeat_threshold=5,
              poll_period=100,
              provider=LocalProvider(
                  channel=LocalChannel(),
                  init_blocks=0,
                  min_blocks=0,
                  max_blocks=5,
                  launcher=SingleNodeLauncher(),
              ),
          )
      ],
      strategy='simple',
      app_cache=True, checkpoint_mode='task_exit',
      retries=2)
  #   monitoring=MonitoringHub(
  #                    hub_address="localhost",
  #                    hub_port=55055,
  #                    logging_level=logging.INFO,
  #                    resource_monitoring_interval=1,
  #                ),
  
subject: Reduce poll_period in htex_local_alternate CI test (#1271)