XF 1.2 Daily Statistics occasionally showing zero values - re-count fixex, but a bug or cron issue?

[CTXMedia]

Over the past few months there have been several occasionals where the daily statistics values on some variables at CycleChat have been zero; posts, active members, likes, etc.



Rebuild Daily Statistics fixes the counts, but I'm wondering why it's miscounting in the first place.

Are the stats calculated in a single run or are they separate cron jobs?

What triggers the cron job and when is it set to run?

Could this be run directly from the server using a Debian cron entry?

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[CTXMedia]

I should add that CycleChat is still on 1.2.3 - and, having read a thread regarding cron changes for 1.2.4 I think I'll update it in the coming days to see if it resolves this issue too.

 

[Mike]

If there are some stats that are non-zero, it indicates the cron ran. However, it doesn't indicate that the cron finished, so it's possible the script got killed while it was running.

 

[CTXMedia]

If there are some stats that are non-zero, it indicates the cron ran. However, it doesn't indicate that the cron finished, so it's possible the script got killed while it was running.

Thanks Mike. Would it improve matters if I ran the cron directly from the server via a system initiated cron job (with root as the owner)? If so, what would be the command line?

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[lazy llama]

Is there any way of re-running the stats from just the missing day or running the stats rebuild from the commandline?