Re: Quit revisited

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 10912
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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:

Re: Quit revisited (Grant Hulbert 1997)
Re: Quit revisited (Grant Hulbert 1997)
Re: Quit revisited (Karl Schroll 1997)
Re: Quit revisited (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
Re: Quit revisited (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
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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