Hi David,
I hope you're well. Just a quick question from me. I import some large feeds that have hundreds of thousands of products but only a few hundred are actually used in the end as niche mode is set for these big ones. These feeds can take a while to import using slow_import as my host provider has a 30 sec limit on php scripts. Do you know of any ways to speed this up? Maybe not importing descriptions and other fields would have an effect? Thanks
Thanks David, I've made the changes and it is faster!
Greetings,
It has been our experience that the slow import CRON is much faster than the slow import through admin - Just wanted to share...
Hi Allan,
Slow import can normally be sped up significantly using a larger block size, and sleep period of 0. The defaults are set in config.advanced.php at lines 37-39:
$config_slowImportBlock = 100;$config_slowImportSleep = 2;
...so you might want to try, for example:
$config_slowImportBlock = 1000;$config_slowImportSleep = 0;
A bit of experimentation should determine the maximum block that can be processed within your host's max_execution_time; but I wouldn't recommend going over around half the maximum time.
If you are using slow import of all feeds it would be technically possible to use the truncate and disable keys fix but there is the possibility of the process aborting with keys disabled but if you would like to investigate that option let me know...
Cheers,
David.
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