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surplus
Starting Member
Canada
16 Posts |
 Posted - March 25 2017 : 22:07:05
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Checking the server stats I noticed that 43% of the bandwidth on our shopping cart in the past week has been used by loading a little session counter program called
shop_donothing.asp
Any ideas why this file would be loaded 175000 times in 3 days?
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support
Administrator
4679 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2017 : 05:00:05
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Hi there,
You can ignore this file as its purpose is purely to keep the cart sessions alive.
Hope this helps!
Thank you
Richard
VPCart Support |
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FCS-Webmaster
VP-CART New User
Canada
120 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2017 : 11:35:27
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Hi Richard.
I thought the same thing, then I thought that 55000 to 60000 calls to it per day and 43% of server bandwidth is a lot of bandwidth used by a tiny file to ignore.
Tim Hodges
Forest City Surplus Canada
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Edited by - FCS-Webmaster on March 27 2017 11:36:07 |
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support
Administrator
4679 Posts |
Posted - March 27 2017 : 23:57:39
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Hi Tim,
I had a look on our servers and it is not taking anywhere near that level of bandwidth so not sure why it is on yours.
Either way you have a couple of options.
1. Disable the feature
2. Tweak the time it refreshes
For both options do a search in the online config for the following:
xkeepsession
This will return the 2 settings you need to tweak.
Basically the purpose is to keep alive the cart and customer sessions even if you do not have the cookie module activated.
A common complaint was customers were seeing their carts or customer login sessions removed because of waiting too long. This feature allows the cart to stay until they close the browser or the server recycles the application pool.
Using the cookies module allows you to do the same so you can disable if using this tool.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Cam Flanigan
VPCart Customer Service |
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FCS-Webmaster
VP-CART New User
Canada
120 Posts |
Posted - April 05 2017 : 19:22:46
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Thanks Cam for the tip.
I changed the xkeepsession alive last week from every 3 minutes to almost every 10 minutes and it''s helped.
Under the old setting from March 20th to 26th 2,180,913 page views (311559 per day).
A 28% under the new settings. March 29th to April 4th was only 1,567,380 page views (223,911 per day).
It''s down to 80% of all page views and 40.76% of all bandwidth being that one file. |
Edited by - FCS-Webmaster on April 19 2017 10:24:00 |
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support
Administrator
4679 Posts |
Posted - April 19 2017 : 02:41:07
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Hi Tim,
Just following this one up. We have made a tweak in our latest release with a line change to limit the usage of this file.
Please open shop_load_otherjs_subs.asp.
Locate the following around line 90:
$("#session_frame")[0].src = $("#session_frame")[0].src;
setTimeout(refresh_autosendlink, 10000);
Change to:
$("#session_frame")[0].src = $("#session_frame")[0].src;
setTimeout(refresh_autosendlink, <%=xkeepsession_time%>);
Save and test.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Cam Flanigan
VPCart Customer Service |
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