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[François Marier <francois@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

** Changed in: mahara
    Milestone: None => 1.4.0

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/611533

Title:
  Refresh feeds cron job is too slow

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  When there are invalid feeds the long timeouts can delay the rest of the cron job, including the core cron tasks.  On demo.mahara.org it sometimes goes on for more than 5 minutes.  The updating of feeds should happen in a separate process, or failing that, we should at least make the timeout shorter and/or make sure it gets run last.

Both the temp export file cleanup and cleanup_feeds function happen to get run at the same times as refreshing the feeds, but they should be offset a bit.

cleanup_feeds tries to remove feeds from the list of feeds to be updated if those feeds no longer appear in any blocks.  Another way to deal with the timeout problems when updating invalid feeds might be to reduce the frequency of update attempts for feeds that have failed to update for a while.