updates to slowly

jay · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

hello,

I think your script is really great and i got it working so far.
But there is a little problem i got:
I am merging 3 feeds right now, and then display rssMesh.php with rss2html.
the problem is, that altho the 3 feeds update, it takes ages until the updates occur in the rssMesh feed.
How can i fix that?
Is it possible to have the rssMesh to update immediately?

thank you for your help

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

jay wrote:

hello,

I think your script is really great and i got it working so far.
But there is a little problem i got:
I am merging 3 feeds right now, and then display rssMesh.php with rss2html.
the problem is, that altho the 3 feeds update, it takes ages until the updates occur in the rssMesh feed.
How can i fix that?
Is it possible to have the rssMesh to update immediately?

thank you for your help

In the RSSMesh configuration there are cache settings, for how often the feeds are read.

Jim

jay · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

MacSupport wrote:

In the RSSMesh configuration there are cache settings, for how often the feeds are read.

Jim

is that the

Quote:

"feedTTL" => "10"

?? coz i got that on 10 for every feed but still the entries dont show right away...

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

jay wrote:

MacSupport wrote:

In the RSSMesh configuration there are cache settings, for how often the feeds are read.

Jim

is that the

Quote:

"feedTTL" => "10"

?? coz i got that on 10 for every feed but still the entries dont show right away...

There is also "UseOutputCaching" and "OutputCacheTTL"

Jim

jay · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

MacSupport wrote:

jay wrote:

MacSupport wrote:

In the RSSMesh configuration there are cache settings, for how often the feeds are read.

Jim

is that the

Quote:

"feedTTL" => "10"

?? coz i got that on 10 for every feed but still the entries dont show right away...

There is also "UseOutputCaching" and "OutputCacheTTL"

Jim

so what should be the settings for all of that, so that it updates immediately? (if possible)

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

jay wrote:

so what should be the settings for all of that, so that it updates immediately? (if possible)

If you disable caching and set the TTLs to 0 then it will update every time it is accessed. But this is will cause much slower page loading since it will have to fetch all of the feeds every time and then process them. That is why there is caching.

Jim

jay · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

MacSupport wrote:

jay wrote:

so what should be the settings for all of that, so that it updates immediately? (if possible)

If you disable caching and set the TTLs to 0 then it will update every time it is accessed. But this is will cause much slower page loading since it will have to fetch all of the feeds every time and then process them. That is why there is caching.

Jim

hmm i did that but somehow it still doesnt update...
would it maybe help if only parts of each rss feed are fetched? because i really just need the headlines of each entry to be fetched.
can i tell rssMesh to do that?

really appreciate you helping me out here

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

jay wrote:

MacSupport wrote:

jay wrote:

so what should be the settings for all of that, so that it updates immediately? (if possible)

If you disable caching and set the TTLs to 0 then it will update every time it is accessed. But this is will cause much slower page loading since it will have to fetch all of the feeds every time and then process them. That is why there is caching.

Jim

hmm i did that but somehow it still doesnt update...
would it maybe help if only parts of each rss feed are fetched? because i really just need the headlines of each entry to be fetched.
can i tell rssMesh to do that?

really appreciate you helping me out here

Each feed is one file, so the whole file has to be fetched to extract the wanted information.

Jim

jay · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

well ok then.
that the updating takes so long, might it have something to do with the fact that each feed comes from a different server, not on the one the script is located on??

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

jay wrote:

well ok then.
that the updating takes so long, might it have something to do with the fact that each feed comes from a different server, not on the one the script is located on??

That is the main reason to use caching on the input of feeds. Are you using caching with rss2html?

Jim

jay · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

MacSupport wrote:

jay wrote:

well ok then.
that the updating takes so long, might it have something to do with the fact that each feed comes from a different server, not on the one the script is located on??

That is the main reason to use caching on the input of feeds. Are you using caching with rss2html?

Jim

no, i got it set to 0 in both, rssMesh and rss2html

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

jay wrote:

MacSupport wrote:

jay wrote:

well ok then.
that the updating takes so long, might it have something to do with the fact that each feed comes from a different server, not on the one the script is located on??

That is the main reason to use caching on the input of feeds. Are you using caching with rss2html?

Jim

no, i got it set to 0 in both, rssMesh and rss2html

Okay. I would recommend using input caching, but set it to small values like 300 or 600 seconds. And disable output caching.

Jim

jay · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

OK, now i got
rss2html.php

Quote:

$allowCachingXMLFiles = 1;

rssMesh.php

Quote:

$allowCachingXMLFiles = 1;

rssMesh Config.php

Quote:

$useOutputCaching = 0;

Quote:

$outputCacheTTL = 0;

in there, on each feed:

Quote:

"feedTTL" => "300"

still no immediate update :(

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

jay wrote:

OK, now i got
rss2html.php

Quote:

$allowCachingXMLFiles = 1;

rssMesh.php

Quote:

$allowCachingXMLFiles = 1;

rssMesh Config.php

Quote:

$useOutputCaching = 0;

Quote:

$outputCacheTTL = 0;

in there, on each feed:

Quote:

"feedTTL" => "300"

still no immediate update :(

You want do set "$allowCachingXMLFiles = 0;" in rss2html.php, that is what is causing you caching delay. The default caching time is 1 day.

Jim

jay · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 9

hmm ok, i did that. but right now i am only refreshing rssMesh.php anyway to see whether the entry is fetched or not...