Thanks Dave. So if I turn off the TurnoverReferrersTask (by commenting it in the roller properties file), will I have a 'never ending' hit count? Guy
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: hot blogs hit count persistency The hot blogs list is supposed to be a daily hit count. The TurnoverReferrersTask is designed to clear the hit counts every night at midnight. - Dave On 8/7/06, Guy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello; > > I am still confused about the "hot blogs" count system. > > It seems like the referrer table is "zeroing" often. > > Note that I have many server restarts - should this affect the "hot > blogs" count? Also. The > org.apache.roller.presentation.TurnoverReferersTask\ is uncommented, > does this mean that every day the hot blog count should be "zero'ed"? > > > > Below is a mysql query on the referrer table I executed today. Of > course, the roller weblogger had more hits in the last few days. > > I would appreciate your help. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > mysql> select id,dayhits,totalhits from referer; > > +----------------------------------+---------+-----------+ > > | id | dayhits | totalhits | > > +----------------------------------+---------+-----------+ > > | ff8080810ce76212010ce76c4ab40002 | 1 | 1 | > > | ff8080810ce76212010ce76bcafb0001 | 4 | 4 | > > +----------------------------------+---------+-----------+ > > > > > > > > >If you are using the latest source tree (there was a reorg of some > packages > >after 2.3), that class is called: > > >org.apache.roller.ui.core.tasks.TurnoverReferersTask > > >--a. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anil Gangolli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 8:18 AM > Subject: Re: hot blogs hit count persistency > > > > > > Ok. Try looking at you referer table in the database directly with a > > mySQL client. If it is nonempty, the entries there are probably just > too > > old to be counted by the "hot blogs" query. If it is empty it > suggests > > that either the cleanup ran or an improper export/reimport. > > > > The periodic cleanup task is > > org.apache.roller.presentation.TurnoverReferersTask. > > > > It can be executed daily within the server by adding/uncommenting the > > following snippet in > > your roller.properties / roller-custom.properties file. > > > > --- > > # Comma separated list of task classnames to be executed once per day > > tasks.daily=org.apache.roller.presentation.TurnoverReferersTask > > --- > > > > The class also has a main method that allows it to be run (with > requisite > > classpath) directly from, e.g., a cron job. > > > > --a. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Guy Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:50 AM > > Subject: RE: hot blogs hit count persistency > > > > > > thanks; > > can you please ellaborate about the periodic cleanup task? i did not > know > > such a thing existed. i thought the hit count just keeps on growing > and > > growing... is the periodic task configurable in any way? > > thanks > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Anil Gangolli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thu 7/20/2006 7:13 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: hot blogs hit count persistency > > > > It's computed by a query on the recent referrer counts which are > stored in > > the "referer" (sic.) table. Perhaps you didn't export these, or you > > cleared them out, or the periodic cleanup task ran and cleared them > out? > > > > --a. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Guy Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:58 AM > > Subject: hot blogs hit count persistency > > > > > > Hi all; > > > > Is the hit number for "hot blogs" saved in the DB? (Which table?). > > > > For some reason the number was reset for all my blogs in my roller web > > app. > > > > I am doing some testing, dumping the DB and populating the DB from > time > > to time but I can't find a reason for why the number was reset to 0. > > > > I am using roller 2.3/tomcat 5.5.17/mysql 4.1.16 > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
