Re: Quit revisited

This WebDNA talk-list message is from

1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 10912
interpreted = N
texte = >Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:50:34 >From: grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) >Subject: Re: Quit revisited >To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: Bulk >Reply-To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com >X-Unsubscribe: send email to WebDNA-Talk with subject UNSUBSCRIBE > >>I tried both examples of using quit to quit the WebCat.acgi as shown in >>the WebMerchant reference: >> >>The link method, >> >>Quit >>WebCatalog
>> >>and the form/button method, >> >>
>ACTION=http://www.bzzzzzz.com/Catalogs/WebCatalog.acgi$quit> >> >> >>and in both cases I get back a page stating that Databases have been >>updated, but the catalog hasn't quit. Just to make sure that it didn't >>quit and then restart very fast I pulled it into the foreground to see if >>it would stay there through the quit and it did. >> >>So, does the quit just update the databases, instead of quitting ? >>That's really all we wanted to do in the first place, but we'd also like >>to understand what is going on :-) >> >>Thanks, >> >> >>-Sven >> >Grant might be able to tell you better, but if you do a get info from the >Mac Finder menu, and look at the file dates of your data bases and then do >the quit and look at them again you will see they have updated (if they >were open). I am using the plugin now so can't retest to verify the above. >Do the same from Webcatalog admin, look at data bases and I think it says >commit databases. If you look at this peice of html in the admin it does a >$quit.. I have no idea how often data is written from Ram to disk without >doing the quit or in the case of the plug [closedatabase]. In the same >vain I would like Grant to verify the following... We updated a bunch of >records last week via a template and within minutes had another acgi crash >the server. We had to go back and correct some of the records as the >changes did not occur. I assume we lost them when the Ram cleared and they >had not made it to disk. So to protect ourselves from this happening again >we put some [closedatabase]'s in some very key areas. Since we are not >updating records thousands of times a day, we assumed the server load is >nothing by doing this. > >=============================================== >Gary Richter > PanaVise Products, Inc. > 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 > Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 > Email: grichter@panavise.com > http://www.panavise.com >=============================================== >=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com =============================================== Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Quit revisited (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Re: Quit revisited (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  3. Re: Quit revisited (Karl Schroll 1997)
  4. Re: Quit revisited (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  5. Re: Quit revisited (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  6. Quit revisited (Sven U. Grenander 1997)
>Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:50:34 >From: grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) >Subject: Re: Quit revisited >To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: Bulk >Reply-To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com >X-Unsubscribe: send email to WebDNA-Talk with subject UNSUBSCRIBE > >>I tried both examples of using quit to quit the WebCat.acgi as shown in >>the WebMerchant reference: >> >>The link method, >> >>Quit >>WebCatalog
>> >>and the form/button method, >> >>>ACTION=http://www.bzzzzzz.com/Catalogs/WebCatalog.acgi$quit> >> >> >>and in both cases I get back a page stating that Databases have been >>updated, but the catalog hasn't quit. Just to make sure that it didn't >>quit and then restart very fast I pulled it into the foreground to see if >>it would stay there through the quit and it did. >> >>So, does the quit just update the databases, instead of quitting ? >>That's really all we wanted to do in the first place, but we'd also like >>to understand what is going on :-) >> >>Thanks, >> >> >>-Sven >> >Grant might be able to tell you better, but if you do a get info from the >Mac Finder menu, and look at the file dates of your data bases and then do >the quit and look at them again you will see they have updated (if they >were open). I am using the plugin now so can't retest to verify the above. >Do the same from Webcatalog admin, look at data bases and I think it says >commit databases. If you look at this peice of html in the admin it does a >$quit.. I have no idea how often data is written from Ram to disk without >doing the quit or in the case of the plug [closedatabase]. In the same >vain I would like Grant to verify the following... We updated a bunch of >records last week via a template and within minutes had another acgi crash >the server. We had to go back and correct some of the records as the >changes did not occur. I assume we lost them when the Ram cleared and they >had not made it to disk. So to protect ourselves from this happening again >we put some [closedatabase]'s in some very key areas. Since we are not >updating records thousands of times a day, we assumed the server load is >nothing by doing this. > >=============================================== >Gary Richter > PanaVise Products, Inc. > 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 > Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 > Email: grichter@panavise.com > http://www.panavise.com >=============================================== >=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com =============================================== grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter)

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