Re: [Slashcode-development] Re: Weird Slash Behavior...

[Chris J. <jo...@nm...>]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Cliff wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 October 2003 12:54, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Cliff wrote:
> > > OK, so assuming you haven't touched anything, it looks like
> > > templates have spontaneously lept out of your database
> > > because that's what those errors mean.
> > >
> > > See if you can find the following templates and reload
> > > them onto your site using template-tool:
> > >
> > > sections_summary;misc;default
> > >
> > > See if that at least makes things better.
> >
> >      The sections_* templates are supposed to be generated by a
> > task I put in almost a year ago.  Very strange.  I've got the
> > tassk running again.  And the errors are gone from the log.  No
> > clue how it happened.
> >
> >      On another note, are there delays in updating templates or
> > delays in showing them?  Should they be distributed around the
> > entire database immediately?  I'm seeing differences in sections
> > blocks where there shouldn't be any after my task runs.  And the
> > task is running without errors now.  I have it writing it's own
> > log and it is finding what it's supposed to.
> 
> This depends on the settings in your 'vars' table. There are caching
> variables in there that determine how long webservers wait until
> they refresh their caches from the database. The easy way to fix
> this is to restart your apache servers, as this then makes sure you
> are using the latest data from cache.
> 
> This does NOT affect the tasks, however, as the tasks make their
> own connection to the database. However, if slashd isn't running, 
> then the tasks don't run either. There have been problems with 
> slashd bombing out when the database hiccups, and these
> can be minimized by using "/etc/init.d/slashd keepalive" at 
> periodic intervals.
> 
> - Cliff
> 

     Ok, restarted apache which is set up to not do caching but may be
doing a little in memory.  Also made sure slashd was running but
restarted it anyway.  No joy.  The New article page still does not see
the new topic I added, which is in the topics table in the database.
It  does show the section I added.  Something is still weird.  Any
suggestions?

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