[ic] Restarting Interchange when site live

[John1]

On Saturday, June 05, 2004 8:23 PM, mike at perusion.com wrote:

> Quoting John1 (list_subscriber at yahoo.co.uk):
>> Is it safe to restart the Interchange daemon while a site is live
>> and while a customer may potentially be in the middle of the order
>> process.
>
> Yes, because if their page transaction has started, the forked (or
> preforked) server they are using will not terminate until it is over.
>
> If you were to do a KILL and not a TERM signal, that obviously
> changes.
>
>>
>> i.e.  Is all the session data stored on disk, and would the customer
>> be able to complete their order where they left off, if the site
>> were unavailable for say 10 seconds in the middle of their order?
>>
>> If I wanted catalog changes to be applied to a live site would I be
>> better just sending an "Apply changes" command rather than actually
>> restarting the daemon.  Would this have any adverse effects on a
>> customer halfway through placing an order?
>>
>
> No, other than the fact they will use the pre-reconfigured (sic?)
> configuration.
>
Thanks for this useful info Mike!  I am increasingly impressed with
Interchange - a great product!