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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 04/19/2017 10:27 PM, Amos (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:51 AM, David Verdin <address@concealed 
> <mailto:address@concealed>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Asbed,
> 
>     Le 04/02/15 02:20, Asbed Bedrossian a écrit :
>>     We use the include_file feature to auto-populate lists here. 
>> Essentially, a few times a day we scp an updated subscriber file to the 
>> Sympa VM. Some of our lists are large, over 75K addresses. I haven’t yet 
>> experienced the timeout issues you refer to. Running 6.1.24.
>     I think that what take time is that, when you disaply the list of list 
> memebers, Sympa tries to update it on the fly
>     with the datasources.
>     You could simply disable on the fly sync_include by setting the 
> 'distribution_ttl' parameter to a very large value.
>     Then display the list in the web interface or run a SOAP request to 
> review it. This will be the starting point of
>     the wait between two on-the-fly sync includes. The second one will 
> never happen, as you will have put a very long delay.
> 
>     Then, to keep your list up-to-date with datasources, each time you 
> update the file used as source, delete the
>     sync_include task for this list. One minute later, the task_manager 
> will find the task missing and execute it.
>     This way, your list will be up-to-date and wont' try to update it each 
> time you review it.
> 
>     Best regards,
> 
>     David
> 
> 
> 
> This used to be a really effective hack with 6.1.x.  However, ever since 
> upgrading to 6.2.16 this little trick seems to
> no longer work for me.  Is there a better way to achieve this?  (Only do 
> the sync with include_file when we specifically
> want to do the sync.)
> 
> Amos
> 
> 

Hello Amos,

it looks like triggering the sync's from the outside would be useful for 
other usecases as well.

Regards
        Racke

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