tagadelics anonymous
There seems to be some kind of conflict between user profiles and my use of the tagadelic module on my site. When registered users are logged in everything seems to be fine, but, when the site is viewed as a non logged in anonymous viewer, the content is not properly updated ie blogs in the 'recent blogs' block are from days ago and not representing the most recent post.
I have had a similar thing happen before with a different taxonomy related module, taxonomy_access. The previous solution provided by a wonderful drupal.org member for me was the deletion of a database table that was causing a conflict, called term_access. I don't know enough about which database tables may be causing my current tagadelic problem to go in and start cutting stuff or if thats even the problem.
Does anyone know why this might be happening here with tagadelic and the anonymous user profile, and how to fix it?
Peter
Caching
It sounds like you're seeing caching of old content. This only affects anonymous users. Try going to admin >> site configuration >> performance and turn it off. If that cures the problem, you may want to leave it off.
Nancy W.
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well...
I turned off caching, then was mortified to find my site screech to such a slowdown that it rendered it essentially unusable. My database is not that big about 4mb with a few thousand posts. I promptly turned the caching back on but its still extremely slow.
I would be happy to have the tagadelic problem back if I could get my site to work normally again.
Has anyone had a problem after turning off caching like this? Nancy?...
It should catch up
Caching is only for anonymous users. As those pages are rebuilt, it should return to normal. It should have had affect on authenticated users. On all my sites, the only pages that are for anonymous users are fairly simple ones, so the impact has never been dramatic. I see more of an effect from CSS compression.
To fix the original problem, all I can think of then, is to set up a little cron job to truncate the cache table in the middle of the night. Of course, that could slow down anonymous users in the morning, and it will lose your update_status information if you use that module.
Nancy W.
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Cron jobs
Nancy thanks for your input,
Eventually my site returned to its previous state...phew. My drupal 5.1 has always been sluggish, it seems whenever I click a link it just sits for a second -do you know of any general speed optimization tricks for drupal?
Since I use the Poormanscron module, I have not set up cron jobs and don't know how, can you give a brief description of how I could set up the cron job you mentioned or point me to a reference for doing this?
Peter
Umm...
See that "Cookbook" link in my signature?
Nancy W.
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