Background processing after conversion horrible, horrible slow

[Ramsesx]

Using webservice easy cron since 35 hrs. now but the pace of the tasks are absolutely horrible slow. At this rate, it will probably take several weeks to finish. Rebuilding posts is now at

 

Rebuilding posts 32,55%

 

Two days ago it was at 24%. There must be something wrong.

 

Edited November 24, 2022 by Ramsesx

[opentype]

You could always run it from the ACP in the browser. 

[Ramsesx]

20 minutes ago, opentype said:

You could always run it from the ACP in the browser.

Thanks for your help, wil check this out now.

[Daniel F]

Depending on your server it’s also worth to try to increase following constant values

 

                // Maximum number of things to rebuild per cycle for background tasks
                'REBUILD_INTENSE' => 1, // For extremely intensive routines, such as rebuilding images
                'REBUILD_SLOW'    => 50,    // For routines that take a while
                'REBUILD_NORMAL'    => 250,    // For most routines
                'REBUILD_QUICK'    => 500,    // For routines that are fast
                
    

[Ramsesx]

Ok, this looks way better. So one question, if I run this at manual mode, it processes some stuff and after gets to a white page and I have it to start again. Is this the normal behavior?

 

21 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

 // Maximum number of things to rebuild per cycle for background tasks
                'REBUILD_INTENSE' => 1, // For extremely intensive routines, such as rebuilding images
                'REBUILD_SLOW'    => 50,    // For routines that take a while
                'REBUILD_NORMAL'    => 250,    // For most routines
                'REBUILD_QUICK'    => 500,    // For routines that are fast

I don't have access to my server.

Will continue on evening, have to go for now. Thanks for helping.

[Marc Stridgen]

Check mysql is optimised so things arent timing out after very short periods too. This could also cause issues

[Ramsesx]

My final solution now, I run it on browser, but it's always timing out. So I installed a plugin for firefox where the page autoloads after a given time (2 minutes). The dry and dirty way how to do the job. Looks way better now and tomorror it should be completed. Thank y'all for helping.

[Marc Stridgen]

Given its timing out, it would certainly be worth approaching your hosting company on this, as it seems your mysql instance is timing out there

[Ramsesx]

So, after the most time consuming tasks have ran through, it stops now on the task: Rebuilding Gallery Images at 23,58 %

I have added the value into the conf_global.php (?) like suggested by @Daniel F

 'REBUILD_INTENSE' => 1, // For extremely intensive routines, such as rebuilding images

There are only 14 images in the gallery...

 

[Jim M]

1 hour ago, Ramsesx said:

So, after the most time consuming tasks have ran through, it stops now on the task: Rebuilding Gallery Images at 23,58 %

I have added the value into the conf_global.php (?) like suggested by @Daniel F

 'REBUILD_INTENSE' => 1, // For extremely intensive routines, such as rebuilding images

There are only 14 images in the gallery...

 

You would want to up the number there as 1 is default settings.

Additionally, it’s worth mentioning if you’re still hitting a white screen, this could be a server error you’re hitting and simply ignoring this and reloading the page will not allow this to progress. You will need to engage your hosting provider to figure out the error and if it is a software error, please pass it to us here. 

[Ramsesx]

1 hour ago, Jim M said:

Additionally, it’s worth mentioning if you’re still hitting a white screen, this could be a server error you’re hitting and simply ignoring this and reloading the page will not allow this to progress.

Thanks, after some researching I found out that I have to add

php_value max_execution_time 300 into my .htaccess

Now the background process runs smoothly without timing out.

Edited November 26, 2022 by Ramsesx

[Marc Stridgen]

Glad to hear you found an answer to the problem 🙂