diff --git a/perfstats/middleware.py b/perfstats/middleware.py
index 2e3bfa20b7..ebb8e8142c 100644
--- a/perfstats/middleware.py
+++ b/perfstats/middleware.py
@@ -9,17 +9,17 @@ class ProfileMiddleware:
         print "Process request"
 
     def process_response (self, request, response):
-        totalTime = time.time() - self.t
-        tmpfile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix='sqlprof-t=' + str(totalTime) + "-", delete=False)
+        # totalTime = time.time() - self.t
+        # tmpfile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix='sqlprof-t=' + str(totalTime) + "-", delete=False)
         
-        output = ""
-        for query in connection.queries:
-            output += "Time: " + str(query['time']) + "\nQuery: " + query['sql'] + "\n\n"
+        # output = ""
+        # for query in connection.queries:
+        #     output += "Time: " + str(query['time']) + "\nQuery: " + query['sql'] + "\n\n"
         
-        tmpfile.write(output)
+        # tmpfile.write(output)
         
-        print "SQL Log file: " , tmpfile.name
-        tmpfile.close()
+        # print "SQL Log file: " , tmpfile.name
+        # tmpfile.close()
         
-        print "Process response"
+        # print "Process response"
         return response
diff --git a/setting_no_askbot.py b/setting_no_askbot.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d0bcea0f1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setting_no_askbot.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ASKBOT_ENABLED = False
+execfile("settings.py")
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index b4ada5e60a..bf70265078 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 COURSEWARE_ENABLED = True
-ASKBOT_ENABLED = True
+
+if 'ASKBOT_ENABLED' not in locals():
+   ASKBOT_ENABLED = True
 if not COURSEWARE_ENABLED:
    ASKBOT_ENABLED = False