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Question: Why is Webcron a problem? #881

Closed stefan-niedermann closed 8 years ago

stefan-niedermann commented 8 years ago

Hi, can you please explain me, why using webcron causes issues using the News App? What's the difference if the File is called from internal php or triggered via wget?

BernhardPosselt commented 8 years ago

It's a core implementation issue: basically both web and ajax cron have a timeout since they are triggered by a web request. So it was (imho correctly) decided to keep the jobs as short as possible.

This is done by keeping all jobs in a queue and only running one job per call. This in turn means that the feed update cron job will not be run every time you run your cron so feeds are not updated in a timely manner.

BernhardPosselt commented 8 years ago

TL;DR: cron executes all jobs, web + ajax execute only one job

stefan-niedermann commented 8 years ago

hm, okay, thanks for your explenation. though its said because many share hosters don't provide access to system cron, so it would be really really nice if webcron could work, too... :disappointed:

BernhardPosselt commented 8 years ago

Use the custom updater then ;)

BernhardPosselt commented 8 years ago

You can run the updater from any server.