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Originally posted by Stephan Whelan
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- How long does it take you to process the newsfeeds. I have 12 newsgroups running and I have to set my cron schedule to every 2 hours (I might put it back to every 3 hours) as it takes on average around 80 minutes to complete a run at processing all posts. I have around 500 posts in the usenet_article table and the expiry length is set to 2 days in my CP. I'm not to fussed in some respects, but I am a bit concerned that there is almost a constant load on the server...

Woooah!!

You have a problem! I pull, process and load 70 groups in 5 minutes! When it was on a shared virtual server it used to take up to 15 minutes.

Even when pulling history with batch limit set to 150 it only takes 10-20 minutes! That's over 10,000 posts.

What version of Perl are you using?

[Stephan Whelan]

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Perl is 5.005_03.

I've watched the server pull newsgroups stuff through and it pulls the articles very quickly, the problem seems to be when it reaches "Checking for Orphans" and "Loading x Replies" stage.

I've followed details on optimising MySQL from various threads in these forums but doesn't seem to help very much.

It isn't a shared server, it is a cobalt raq 4i with 512 RAM.

Since trying to apply this hack our forums have been down with the following error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/sites/site3/web/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1729

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbsetcookie() in /home/sites/site3/web/forums/admin/sessions.php on line 198

I followed the directions exactly as specified in the INSTALL.TXT file. Modified the required files and then manually uploaded them to the server.

Any ideas on the problem? A prompt solution would be much appreciated since our boards are down at this moment.

[chrispadfield]

first- replace functions.php with the backup you made to get forums working again.

then look inside functions.php the error might be beginning here:

function vbsetcookie ...

basically you have done something wrong in fuctions.php, missed of a closing bracket would be my guess

I uploaded the original functions.php and indeed the forum started working again. I then proceeded to go through the process of modifying the functions.php file again double and triple checking eachtime that the changes I made were absolutely correct. However, when I uploaded the file again the error I posted above immediately reappeared.

Maybe someone could attach a copy of their working modified functions.php file so I can take a look?

[chrispadfield]

i havn't done it yet so can't help.

You are using the correct version of vb for the hack, release candidate 1. I could not tell from your forums as the version number is not there.

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Originally posted by Stephan Whelan
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Perl is 5.005_03.

I believe this may be your problem. The email::find module requires version 5.005_63 to work at it's optimum. Although having said that I was using it with and older version with no problems. Here is what the module author states:

This module requires 5.005_63 or higher!
This module runs so slow as to be unusable with 5.005 stable. I'm not sure, but it might be because I build up my search regex using lots of compiled regexes. Either way, it runs orders of magnitude faster under 5.005_63.

To confirm my suspicion, try commenting out line 828 of newnews.pl.
It currently reads

find_emails($from, sub { my($e,$orig) = @_; $email = $e->format; } );

It won't make any difference to the functionality unless you are importing usenet users.

Let me know what happens.

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Originally posted by c0bra
Since trying to apply this hack our forums have been down with the following error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/sites/site3/web/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1729

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbsetcookie() in /home/sites/site3/web/forums/admin/sessions.php on line 198

This indicates there is a brace, semi colon or some other syntactical error. I'll have a look at my instructions again, although it worked when I did mine using my own instructions.

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I've checked the instructions and it works for me. Not what you wanted to hear but it does

You might want to re-check the two edits in the deletethread() and deletepost() functions.

The edits replace the closing brace with another line of code AND a closing brace. Make sure you don't have two closing braces in there.

Thanks your solution worked for me. I created a new category forum called "usenet". Created the groups I wished to display on our VB. Ran the perl script, it connected fine, reported downloading all the messages fine, and disconnected fine. However, when I view our forum homepage the newsgroups are not showing up at all.

Should the newsgroup automatically appear under the chosen category when it's created in admin?

Any ideas?