From f4466b86e34e0c12b09b8d0641ff7f7b1cdb912b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Diekershoff Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:52:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] some EN doc about the worker --- doc/Settings.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/Settings.md b/doc/Settings.md index 3652562720..820cef6980 100644 --- a/doc/Settings.md +++ b/doc/Settings.md @@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ By default, any (valid) email address is allowed in registrations. If you enable the `Allow Users to set remote_self` users can select Atom feeds from their contact list being their *remote self* in die advanced contact settings. Which means that postings by the remote self are automatically reposted by Friendica in their names. +This feature can be used for let the user mirror e.g. blog postings into her Friendica postings. +It is disabled by default, as it casus additional load on the server and may be mis-used to distribute SPAM. + As admin of the node you can also set this flag directly in the database. Before doing so, you should be sure you know what you do and have a backup of the database. @@ -167,6 +170,19 @@ This will mean you cannot connect (at all) to self-signed SSL sites. ### Worker +This section allows you to configure the background process that is triggered by the `cron` job that was created during the installation. +The process does check the available system resources before creating a new worker for a task. +Because of this, it may happen that the maximom number of worker processes you allow will not be reached. + +If your servers setup does not allow you to use the `proc_open` function of PHP, please disable it in this section. + +The tasks for the background process have priorities. +To guarantee that important tasks are executet even though the system has a lot of work to do, it is useful to enable the *fastlane*. + +Should you not be able to run a cron job on your server, you can also activate the *frontend* worker. +If you have done so, you can call `example.com/worker` (replace example.com with your actual domain name) on a regular basis from an external servie. +This will then trigger the execution of the background process. + ### Relocate ## Users -- 2.39.5