Notify users - max execution time
leon83 - April 30, 2007 - 06:29
| Project: | Notify |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | postponed (maintainer needs more info) |
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Description
After enabling notify module for 5 000+ users, there is a mistake in sending e-mails. The server sends about 300 e-mails per minute, therefore all script need about 20 minutes to send all messages.
But max execution time in my server is 600 sec (and it's a lot of - before I had 30 sec at shared hosting). So I have mistake, and only about half of e-mails are sent (other not - not in this cron run, not in other).
I propose to add new parameter to notify - how many e-mails send per 1 cycle. E.G. 100 e-mails for one time, and 5 000 e-mails will be sent in 50 cycles.
I consider this issue is common, and will become important as more and more people will use notify module.
#1
Can you roll a patch.
If you can't, I will but I will still need your help, because I don't have the setup (the 5000 users!) to test the effectiveness of the patch.
Can you help?
#2
I had the same problem with 4000+ users. Solved the problem with adding this at the top of cron.php
ini_set("max_execution_time",3000);and configred cron to run every 60 minutes, so enough for cron to finish before the next run and for notify to send 4000+ Mails while other scripts have their default max_execution_time.
This is maybe also a quick workaround for #111762: Multiple notifications sent
If you nead help in testing or developing a patch that minimizes the cron execution-time... I can help
#3
@pixeltank,
Any progress on that aforementioend patch? Seems this is a somewhat frequent problem...