EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[mc12345678]

General EP question.

While doing a large import, apache is taking a lot of resources...

What is the WWW server doing during an import that makes IT so busy?

One thing that is happening while importing is that basically empty characters are being sent to the browser to keep the connection alive. The historical suggestion was to split large files into snake chunks. As development of the software continued, this alternative was implemented. The quantity or load may possibly be reduced. Though to date I believe this is the first such feedback received.

I'm not sure yet what characteristic would be best to monitor to reduce that traffic, whether a time, number of iterations or start value from either would be "ideal". Of course other ideas are welcome.

[gemohler]

One thing that is happening while importing is that basically empty characters are being sent to the browser to keep the connection alive. The historical suggestion was to split large files into snake chunks. As development of the software continued, this alternative was implemented. The quantity or load may possibly be reduced. Though to date I believe this is the first such feedback received.

I'm not sure yet what characteristic would be best to monitor to reduce that traffic, whether a time, number of iterations or start value from either would be "ideal". Of course other ideas are welcome.

Ya..I mean, it doesnt break anything, but 75% of a CPU for apache2 is...busy.

[gemohler]

On the lookout for things I need to know as I relearn the ZC environment.

Im doing EP4 imports, and I have a log file getting _hammered_ with this (attached)

[mc12345678]

On the lookout for things I need to know as I relearn the ZC environment.

Im doing EP4 imports, and I have a log file getting _hammered_ with this (attached)

Gotcha, before suggesting what I just came up with, need to look to see if I have an existing solution on my development server. Mind me asking your specs? PHP version for example?

[gemohler]

Gotcha, before suggesting what I just came up with, need to look to see if I have an existing solution on my development server. Mind me asking your specs? PHP version for example?

Right on..

[mc12345678]

On the lookout for things I need to know as I relearn the ZC environment.

Im doing EP4 imports, and I have a log file getting _hammered_ with this (attached)

Looks like my solution was to change the various instances of:

$categories_name_exists = false;
To an empty array:

$categories_name_exists = array(); // used for backwards compatibility
$categories_name_exists = []; // accomplishes the same as above via shortened code

Worked in PHP 8.2.9 for me. I had just come up with another idea, but it required writing more code.

[gemohler]

Looks like my solution was to change the various instances of:

$categories_name_exists = false;
To an empty array:

$categories_name_exists = array(); // used for backwards compatibility
$categories_name_exists = []; // accomplishes the same as above via shortened code

Worked in PHP 8.2.9 for me. I had just come up with another idea, but it required writing more code.

Just change those two instances in easypopulate_4_import.php?

Simple enough. Was this having any impact other than a massive error log file?

[mc12345678]

Just change those two instances in easypopulate_4_import.php?

Simple enough. Was this having any impact other than a massive error log file?

That was in part my question to you. Looking over changes I have made to push to github, that appears to be all that I needed to do to support complete import of the records that were formatted correctly. Haven't heard if the above resolved the earlier issue of the two records where the first was bypassed but the second imported. Further, didn't see a response to the question about any sort of consistency of report saying not imported because the category name was missing.

Look forward to hearing results so that I can maybe prioritize some of the patches/changes that have been made.

CORRECTION: Apparently there are responses above that I did not see/fully read. Maybe more to follow from me?