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The Emery County Historical Society met Saturday June 1, 2013 at the Cleveland City Park and went on a tour of two Ghost Towns and the restored ghost town buildings in Cleveland Utah. Ed Geary an Emery County Historian led off the tour by relating some of the history of Victor as found in his book "A History Of Emery County."
On this tour there were a few people that had lived in Desert Lake and Victor as children. To get to the old town sites of Desert Lake and Victor the tour took a dirt road north of Cleveland and south of Elmo and traveled east through the Desert Lake Wildlife Refuge where a large alkali patch and three or four ponds reflecting the sky are located behind the Desert Lake Dam. Desert Lake and Victor are east of the dam. At one time homesteads dotted the landscape there.
Geary said, "In 1885, when the pioneers began to be interested in settling the region along the Cleveland canal, a group of people looked farther east and settled in a natural, hollow near the base of Cedar Mountain. At the time there was a major Indian Trail through the area. In the early days, that is where the Gunnison party came across. In later years. A lot of the people in Ferron who had grazing land at 9 mile used this land as part of their cattle trail. The open valley and grass looked pretty good to the settlers. The natural flow of water flowed east from Cleveland toward the hollow. The settlers tried bringing water farther down from the Cleveland canal to develop the land and with teams and scrapers built a dam between two benches or low hills. This dam was to store water for the winter and for summer irrigation. That is where the name Desert Lake comes from. Their hope was to get a canal so they could use some winter water from the creek and some high water to fill up the dam.
"They tried several things such as extending a branch of the Cleveland canal, an extension of the Huntington North ditch. Their problems with the ditch or canal and the problems with water rights created difficulties for them. They were rarely able to get any fresh water. What they got instead was the waters that ran off the farms farther up. They got by with that alkaline water for a while. But every year, things got a little worse. These farmers farmed a lot of acres in this fertile valley and grew wheat, corn, hay and even sugar beets.
"Then in 1896 their dam broke which did a lot of flood damage to the people living below the dam. This, of course, deprived them of their irrigation water. The community got together and started raising money to rebuild the dam. The LDS church contributed money to help hire people to come and rebuild the dam. They tried to engineer the dam better and it took them a year or more to rebuild the dam. Because of alkali in the water, the ground became less productive from year-to-year. Then in 1908 some of the people decided if we move north to higher ground, perhaps we would have better ground. They then moved to the town site of Victor. There they brought water from Price River to land north of Victor. Some people remained in Desert Lake, but the center of the population gradually moved to Victor.
"At Victor, they built a school out of concrete blocks made locally. That became the main building in Victor and was used for school, church and community activities. In 1914, the church organization in Desert Lake formally moved to Victor and continued until 1935. By the mid 1930s in the midst of a multiyear drought there was no good water to be had. Not only was there no water for the land. There was no good water for the people to drink.
Ed Geary said, I think it was the improvement of transportation that led to the end of Victor. The distance from the farm to Elmo was quite a deterrent if you had to get to your farm by horse and wagon. But if you had a Model T, then you could live in Elmo and have good water to drink and not be far from your farm. By the mid-1930s, most people had moved off the land to live in town. North of Victor, there was some land that was irrigated from the Price River and people lived on those farms," said Geary.
The names of the people that lived in Desert Lake and Victor are familiar names in Emery County. Even though these are ghost towns there are living people who trace their roots here. Such as the Wells family, the Powell family, Winder family, the Pillings family, and the Mills family.
Massa Blackburn came to the community as a schoolteacher and was a leader in the community for several years before he moved on. Visiting Desert Lake and Victor is a tradition that lives on in a lot of families in the area. Even though there's not much active life going on where those homesteads once stood.
After leaving the highway and traveling east on unimproved dirt roads. The Historical Society came to the Desert Lake waterfowl management area and stopped on a hill overlooking the valley that had been settled by pioneers in the community of Desert Lake. On this hill stood a monument erected in 1981 in memory of Charles William," Bill" Winder and Caroline Elizabeth Mills. This monument listed some of the genealogy of that family.
Ed Geary then led the group to the town site of Desert Lake. At Desert Lake Theora Pillings Worley told of living as a child four years at the Pillings homestead. She pointed out where the house had stood. She and her sister were born at that homestead. Theora was born in 1925. In 1929 the whole family moved to Big Spring Ranch.
Theora said, they started a dairy at Desert Lake and built a cement vat in the ground to keep the milk cold. Her grandfather and some of the boys built a 9-foot deep cistern lined with cement. They had an old pump in the house to pump water from the cistern into the house. Theora said her uncle Monte would deliver milk to Price every day and bring back big blocks of ice to put in the vat to keep the milk cool.
The Pillings raised hay, grain and sugar beets on the farm. One day when her father had all of his grain standing in chocks along came a "whirly" wind and scattered the grain over the valley and that ended his farming of grain. So they started the dairy.
Theora Pillings Worley had photos of what the homestead looked like and passed those around.
The Historical Society saw the Pillings dugout that had caved in and was partially fallen apart. There appeared to have been nearby a large storage cellar at Desert Lake. Only the deep depression in the hillside remained, with steps leading down in the front and a rock wall at the far end.
Darrel Oliver also once lived at Desert Lake and pointed out where his home had been from 1921 to 1945 on a distant side of the valley. The field there is still being irrigated. His father plowed a ditch around Desert Lake to irrigate his crops. The water was fresh and was utilized for farming. The ditch may still be in use.
Darrel said, Most of the houses were still standing at Desert Lake when the Fish and Game took over. The residents had moved away. One winter morning at 4 a.m. the Fish and Game burned all the houses left in Desert Lake.
The Historical Society then visited the graveyards at Desert Lake and at Victor to view the names of these hardy pioneers. The graveyards were still sporting the decorations from Memorial Day. Many of the graves from Desert Lake had been moved to the Victor Graveyard on higher ground.
After leaving the Victor Cemetery the group traveled to Cleveland Utah to view the exciting pioneer village buildings from around the county that were being restored by Owen Olsen. Olsen had bottles of water and cookies for everyone and a story about Jasper the Little Red Fire Truck. Olsen had written a children's book about the Cleveland Fire Truck that the city had given him for his museum. He built a fire station for that fire truck.
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The pioneer buildings Owen Olsen restored were carefully numbered by him. Each piece had a number before he took the building apart. He then put the building back together with each numbered piece in its place. The chinking between the logs that make up the walls was mixed with straw to keep the chinking from cracking and falling out.
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The Bucket Theory – Why Allergen Avoidance Works Against Allergens and Dust Mites
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Dust Mites are microscopic, insect-like creatures that live in bedding, carpets and upholstered furniture. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), the waste dust mites produce causes allergic symptoms in about 20 million Americans nationwide. Pillows and mattresses are a virtual paradise for dust mites because they thrive in warm, humid conditions while gorging themselves on shed human skin cells. Since people spend 8-10 hours a day in the bedroom, it's where the greatest number of dust mites exist.
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According to her April 24 letter to the State Liquor Authority (below), Millman is concerned about:
1) Bottle service: Kemistry Lounge wishes to be the second establishment in Brooklyn too offer bottle service. Bottle service drastically increases patrons' incentive to drink and promotes dangerous levels of drunkenness.The proprietors and neighbors are far apart on the issue of closing times; for example, the former have requested a 3:30 am cutoff on weekends, while residents, as well as the North Flatbush Business Improvement District, asked for 2 am.
2) Closing times: This establishment abuts a quiet residential block and is located near two day-care centers. A set of reasonable closing times must be established.
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Travel insurance
This section is about travel insurance and the options available for people who have or have had cancer. There is information about
- Why it is important to have insurance
- Why cancer can make it harder to get insurance
- If you have cancer
- If you had cancer in the past
- Your destination and their health services
- Making sure you have enough insurance cover
Travel insurance is designed to provide you with compensation for anything that could go wrong while you are away. Usually, this means anything from having to cancel your trip to losing your suitcases. But the most important element is the medical expenses cover. If you don't have cover and you are travelling to a country with high medical costs, or if you needed to be flown back in an emergency, the potential cost to you could be huge.
Insurance is a business dealing with risk. Some people think they have a right to insurance cover and cannot understand why companies are allowed to refuse them. But insurance companies only make money from people who don't claim. If they think the likelihood of you having to make a claim is too great, they are entitled to turn you down and are likely to do so.
Getting travel insurance when you have had cancer can be difficult. From the company's point of view, you are a bigger risk. As they see it, having been ill, you are more likely to need medical treatment while you are abroad. Or they may think that illness could make you cancel your trip at the last minute. But finding travel insurance is getting easier. Fortunately, many insurance companies are now looking at cases individually rather than refusing to insure everyone who has had cancer.
Some high street travel insurance companies will give you medical insurance as long as you have a certificate from your doctor saying you are fit enough to travel. But many others will only insure you for treatment or emergencies unrelated to your cancer. So you can get travel insurance, but if you need treatment as a result of the cancer, you will have to pay for it yourself.
There are some insurance companies specialised in policies for people with pre existing medical problems. You can read about these further down the page. To be sure that you are covered for any emergency medical problems while travelling, even if those problems are because of your cancer, you will need a policy that says in advance they will cover you for this. As long as you have told the insurance company about the cancer when you apply for the cover, and they have knowingly taken the risk, they must pay according to the policy.
Whether you can get insurance, and the cost,will depend on the type of cancer that you have had. When you apply for travel insurance, be prepared for questions about your cancer diagnosis, the treatment and your outlook (prognosis). Most companies will also ask what the stage and grade of your cancer was when you were diagnosed. So if you don't know, be sure to ask your consultant before you buy the policy, or you may have difficulty making a claim later on. You will also be asked about any follow up care you are having.
Many high street travel insurance companies will give you medical insurance as long as you have a certificate from your doctor confirming that you no longer have cancer and you are fit enough to travel.
Insurance companies differ on how long you must be free of cancer before they will issue you a policy. Some companies will not offer you insurance until you have been without cancer for 3 months, some 12 months, and some will not cover you unless you have been cancer free for 10 years. If you have finished treatment quite recently, be prepared that rates will be higher. Prices generally go down the longer you are cancer free. But this may be 3 to 5 years or even longer.
You want to be able to claim for emergency medical care abroad, even if that treatment is necessary because of your cancer. Again, this depends on you telling the insurance company about your full medical history when applying for the cover. If they have knowingly taken the risk, they must pay according to the policy.
The policies of travel insurance companies can be many and varied and some offer more appropriate cover than others. Be sure to shop around and check your policy carefully.
Whether you have had cancer or not, travel insurance costs vary depending on where you want to go. Medical costs in the USA are very high, for example, and so it is hardest to get cover if you are planning a holiday there. If you have an incurable cancer, particularly one that has spread, you may not get insurance for the USA and may have to rethink your holiday plans. A general guide is that insurance for Europe is cheapest, especially within the European Community. Next comes the rest of the world, excluding North America. And finally the most expensive is North America.
You may not be able to get the type of support or security you want from regular high street travel insurance companies. Many have exclusions on their policies for people who've had medical conditions such as cancer. An exclusion means that they will cover you for everything but what is listed as excluded. So if you have medical cover excluding your cancer, they would pay for any medical treatment that you needed, as long as it wasn't because of your cancer.
Cover for medical needs related to your cancer may be possible, if certain conditions are met. If you can provide a doctor's certificate to say you are fit for travel or have not had any related treatment for 12 months or more, they may cover you.
You may also want to check how the rest of the policy might be affected. For example, whether you would be covered if you had to come home early because of your cancer, and if the company will pay for the specialist medical attention you may need because of taking ill while abroad. For example, if you needed oxygen while traveling on an aeroplane.
If you have problems getting adequate cover, there are specialist insurance companies who provide policies designed for people with serious illness, terminal illness or disability. You can read about these further down the page.The policies on offer are many and varied and some are more exclusive than others. So you will need to shop around. It is best to start by making make informal inquiries about your travel insurance. Some insurance companies may ask if you have been turned down for insurance by someone else already. If you have only made informal enquiries, you won't prejudice any future applications you make.
As a condition of covering you, some insurance companies insist that you must also get their travel insurance for everyone who is travelling with you.
All travel insurance policies require you to disclose fully any information about existing or pre existing conditions. Even if you have had cancer in the distant past, you still need to tell the insurance company about it. If you don't provide all the facts, the insurance company can rightly claim it was misinformed and may not pay out if you make a claim.
If you have a terminal illness or have not been passed fit for travel, then regular high street travel insurance firms will not cover you.
As we've said, you need to get written confirmation of fitness from your doctor, even if you have not had any treatment for some time. It is always best to get advice from your doctor anyway before going abroad, even if it is only for a few days.
If you have an annual or multi trip policy then you will need to provide an updated confirmation certificate from your doctor every time you travel.
If you are travelling to a country within the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, you should carry a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). The EEA includes all EU countries plus Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. The EHIC replaces the old E111 form, which is no longer valid. The EHIC entitles you to free, or reduced cost, medical care in the country you are visiting. The countries included in this agreement are listed in the leaflet that comes with the card.
You need to take the health insurance card with you if you want to benefit from reciprocal health service agreements. But you may have to pay for some things at the time and then claim the money back later. The card doesn't cover the costs of any medical treatment that you have planned in advance. It will only cover you for unforeseen medical needs. But if you need continued treatment for an ongoing illness while you are abroad, such as regular injections, this will be covered by the EHIC.
You can apply for a card online through the NHS Choices website. You can also apply for a card by phone on 0300 330 1350.
Remember - reciprocal health service agreements do not always cover the full cost of treatment. They do not cover the cost of getting you home in an emergency, for instance. So it is sensible to have travel insurance even when travelling in the EU. But you'll still need a European Health Insurance Card because your insurance company may not cover the cost of treatment that the card covers. If you try to claim in full, they may say you should have had a card. So it is important to check the small print!
If you want to go to an EEA country or Switzerland specially for medical treatment there are 2 options for NHS funding which you can read about below
- An S2 form
- The EU Directive on cross border healthcare (Article 56)
You might want to do this perhaps if you are waiting too long for an operation (or other treatment) in the UK, and you could have it done sooner abroad. It will be your responsibility to arrange the treatment. However, you will need to talk through your plans with your doctor first. They can give you details of your primary care trust (PCT) who can explain the different options for funding and which would be most suitable for you.
S2 form
This replaces the old E112 form. It allows you to have state funded treatment in the EEA under the same conditions of care and payment as the residents of that country. Your primary care trust (PCT) has to agree to funding this treatment. You will need to provide a letter from your NHS consultant confirming that you need the treatment and stating why you should receive it in the other country. You must be entitled to have this treatment on the NHS. In some EEA countries you may need to make a contribution towards the cost. But you may be able to claim the money back afterwards.
The EU Directive (Article 56)
This may allow you to claim back some or all the costs of planned medical treatment in the EEA. You will usually need to pay the treatment costs upfront. There is no guarantee that you will get funding, so you must be sure to check this with your primary care trust (PCT) before you make any plans. The treatment must be available on the NHS. Unlike the S2 form, you may be able to claim towards private or state funded treatment. However you can only claim back the amount the treatment would have cost on the NHS. Your PCT can work out the maximum amount that you could claim and advise you further.
There is more information about the S2 form and the EU Directive on the NHS Choices website.
If you are having trouble getting cover, you may find it easier to get a specialised policy. An insurance broker can try to arrange a policy for you. Or can give you a list of insurance companies with special policies for people with cancer or terminal illness.
The British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA) can find you brokers who will advise cancer patients and can arrange travel insurance.
British Insurance Brokers Association
8th Floor John Stow House
18 Bevis Marks
Phone: 0370 950 1790
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.biba.org.uk
Brokers make a service charge so it is always best to make an informal approach to a number of brokers before making a decision. Satisfy yourself that they are familiar with the concerns of cancer patients and are aware what is available for people who have or have had cancer. Some possible brokers and insurance companies are listed below, but you must always make your own enquiries and find an insurer and policy you are happy with.
The best advice is to shop around and start well in advance of your planned holiday. It is worth getting quotes from well known or general travel insurance companies, particularly if you are no longer having treatment and your cancer is in remission. Insurance companies do change their position on insurance cover frequently, so it is almost impossible for us to give you an accurate list of companies that will give you insurance. We provide this information in the hope that it will be helpful to those who are having problems finding insurance.
The companies we list below may be useful for people with cancer, particularly those who are on treatment or have symptoms. Brokers may be able to offer better deals than individual insurance companies because they work with a large pool of insurance companies to try and find you the best deal. The first list below are insurance brokers, and the second are individual insurance agencies.
Please note: we are passing on this information in good faith. We have heard of most of these companies through recommendations from visitors to our website. We are not recommending them, or saying that they will definitely insure you.
Insurance brokers
JD Travel Insurance Consultants
JD travel insurance is a specialist broker providing cover for people with pre existing medical conditions for both annual and single trip policies. Cover can be obtained for travellers currently undergoing treatment. They cannot offer cover for anyone taking part in a clinical trial. They are also unable to offer cover for people who are expected to live less than 6 months after the holiday return date.
JD Travel Insurance Consultants
29 London Road
Bromley, Kent
Phone: 0844 2474749
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.jdtravelinsurance.co.uk
Orbis Insurance Services
Provides cover with no upper age limit for people with pre-existing medical conditions for single and annual policies. They may ask if you are on a clinical trial. Cover is available for anyone who is undergoing treatment or waiting for treatment, but cannot cover people who have been ill for less than 6 months.
Orbis Insurance Services
49-51 St. Leonards Road
East Sussex
Phone: 01424 215 315
Website: www.orbisinsurance.co.uk
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Insurance Choice
Insurance Choice are an insurance brokers who offer travel insurance to any UK or EU residents with pre existing medical conditions. There is no upper age limit. They cannot offer cover for people who have been told that they have less than 6 months to live from the date of return from a trip.
Insurance Choice
2nd Floor St Albans House
Portland Street
Royal Leamington Spa
Phone: 01926 680 782 (9am-8pm Mon - Thur, 9am-7pm Fri, 9am-4pm Sat)
Website: www.insurancechoice.co.uk
Insurance agencies
Freedom Travel Insurance
Freedom Travel Insurance is experienced in offering specialist travel insurance for people with cancer. They may not be able to offer cover if the cancer has spread from its original area in the body. They are also unable to offer cover to anyone who is waiting to have surgery or inpatient treatment. Their cover is underwritten by a very large insurance company called AXA.
Freedom Insurance Services Ltd
Richmond House
16 - 20 Regent Street
Tel: 01223 446 914 (8.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm Saturday)
Online enquiry form
Website: www.freedominsure.co.uk
InsureCancer (Medi Travelcover Ltd)
InsureCancer will cover people with cancer for all destinations, including the USA. They will consider cover for people who are in treatment, waiting for treatment, and people with advanced cancer or a terminal prognosis. Their main requirement is that your consultant gives approval for you to make your trip, and will need to submit a form saying this.
76 Crooksbury Road,
Phone: 01252 780190 or 0845 64 90 190 (9am to 5pm Monday to Friday)
It's So Easy Travel Insurance
Provides travel insurance for people with pre existing medical conditions, including cancer.
It's So Easy Travel Insurance
27 Old Gloucester Street
Phone: 0330 6061422
AllClear Insurance
Specialises in providing travel insurance for people with pre existing medical conditions. They cannot offer cover for anyone who has been told that they have less than 6 months from the date of return.
AllClear Insurance Services Limited
AllClear House
1 Redwing Court
Ashton Road
Phone: 01708 339295 (9am to 7pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm Sat, 10am to 4pm Sun)
Email: email@example.com
Free Spirit
Free Spirit is a specialist travel insurance policy for people with pre existing medical conditions, including cancer. You may be able to get a quote online, but if they need more information about your current health status they might ask you to ring them instead. If your cancer is advanced, and you're no longer having active treatment, phone for a quote rather than trying online. They are unable to cover people over 80 years of age if they have been given a terminal prognosis. They will consider all types of cancer. They are unable to offer cover for the USA , Canada, China, Hong Kong or the Caribbean to people who have been told they have terminal cancer.
Free Spirit
Stansted House
Rowlands Castle
Phone: 0800 170 7704 (8am to 6pm Monday to Friday)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.freespirittravelinsurance.com
World First
World First provides insurance for people in the UK with medical conditions. They cannot offer cover for people who are waiting for treatment. For an individual quote they provide a medical screening phone line.
World First
Tourism House
Woodwater Park
Pynes Hill
Phone: 0345 90 80 161 (Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm, Saturdays 9am to 4pm)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.world-first.co.uk
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Well.. I just freakin loved this chapter, We dont advance much from the story and it was a bit all over the place, but we learn or see some awesome things.
I felt bad for Hitsugaya, but I guess hes taking the correct path, he DID rely on hyourinmaru, still... going with those "crappy" low - 10th division dudes is just... weird, we know hes not that BAD with a sword, like my2kb2 said if he really wanted to sharpen his sword fighting skills, he wouldve gone with Kyoryaku, or even train with Yoruichi (who still has to make an appereance) shes a good teacher xD But besides that, its probably to raise his teams spirits.
Im really eager to see Hisagis bankai, I think Kensei implied he had one, but even if he doesnt, he WILL have one by the time the second invasion arrives, and "Super FukuTaichou" cracked me up! specially with all the glossy design on the arm band xD.
Now Komamuras part, funnily enough is what intrigues me the most. Its always been, something left unexplained to me and for everyone else I believe. Every member practically from the Gotei 13 and citizens of the Rukongai, look like..well.. humans, some are weird but still human, but then you see komamura and ask "Just what the heck is he?" I love his character and all, but finally the time has come xD Hopefully in these following chapters Kubo explains just what is he, but at least now we know there is another one like him probably a race? and dayum, is that Komamuras teacher? father? hes huge, I wonder if Komamura too will get someday as huge xD


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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.0.8, 2.1.5, 2.2.2, 2.3
Fix Version/s: 2.3
Component/s: Forum, General, Performance
Testing Instructions:
Not sure how to test this. Adding test instructions to make sure forum cron doesn't break.
- Enroll 5 users to a course.
- Add forum to course and set Subscription mode to Forced subscription
- Post discussion to forum by logging as different user
- Run cron and make sure every one gets email.
Affected Branches:MOODLE_20_STABLE, MOODLE_21_STABLE, MOODLE_22_STABLE, MOODLE_23_STABLE
Fixed Branches:MOODLE_23_STABLE
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Pull Master Branch:w21_
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The session_set_user function points $_SESSION['USER'] at the passed object.
When data is attached to the session user, this bloats out the referenced object, so if a process changes users many times from say, a prefilled list of records, it will hit the memory limit and fail. For example, the forum digest sending is affected by this problem and will fail on any site where a large number of users are to be sent a digest.
This can be resolved by simply cloning the passed $user object to break the reference.
Github incoming with a patch.
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updating and raising to critical; breaks forum digests on any large site.
Patch looks good.
I wrote a simple script as proof of concept for this issue.
You can run the script attached with both with and without the patch. Without patch you can actually see the memory limit growing with each call to the function, where it is constant with the patch applied.
The reason for the increase is mainly because $_SESSION['user'] is a reference to original $user so all data that is added to $_SESSION['user'] is done to the original array. which inflates the original array.
+1 for integration.
Hi, this behaviour was intentional and the change will probably degrade performance on sites where the data fits into memory. The stuff is $USER is cached data, not bloat.
It isn't useful at all where the user is touched once and it is hardly expected or predictable behavior that an object would be jammed with magic caches by the callee.
Is there a real case where performance is degraded?
I can not talk about 2.x cron because I worked on older versions only, previously it was helping because it was not very efficient, maybe it was improved to not loop the users array multiple times in all modules.
In any case please do not touch session_set_user() and instead tweak cron_setup_user() only if necessary, the reason is there is no way to verify how it is used in existing code including contrib and this change might theoretically cause some very nasty regressions in session related code.
Hmm, I am still not persuaded we should blame session_set_user() or cron_setup_user() because they work consistently with the rest of session and accesslib API - we always add caches to $user record when submitted as function parameter. The forum cron should be imo blamed because it should not try to create the huge array of user records in the first place. This "over-optimisation" is most probably my fault, at that time it helped moodle.org, but I agree that is a sloppy coding style. Ideally we should store only user->id in array and fetch the user records from some fast cache, PHP with its crazy array implementation does not help much here. Possible workaround might be to just clone the user record right before calling cron_setup_user(), it the long term we should imho eliminate the huge user array completely.
In any case thanks a lot for the report, patch and especially your cooperation! I agree this needs to be somehow fixed in all supported stable branches asap.
Hmmm yes but forum cron may not be the only one afflicted with this problem; it would be nice to solve all in one place. If session_set_user or cron setup user is not changed, there should at least be some clear documentation that the object will be modified with heaps of extra data.
This is living in our stables for a while now so if there is any extra slowness or regression somewhere we'll know; so far nothing.
Aside - forum cron itself needs a revisit eventually, it is causing some pain too.
Hi everyone,
Thanks for the work - this has been integrated now.
Perhaps we should create a new issue to investigate the root cause.
Dan: did you read all my comments? Please revert it or at least move the cloning to cron_setup_user().
Grr, my apologies.
I did read your comments and I thought that the change had been made. But clearly didn't read the diff properly.
Sorry everyone, reverting.
Sorry for the noise. I've reverted this change - I shouldn't have integrated this.
No worries dan, at least we have one more person deeply interested in this issue. Which of the options do you like most:
1/ clone in session_set_user() - I am personally worried about this one
2/ clone in cron_setup_user() - it should resolve this forum problem, some optimisations where $user is used repeatedly will stop work (that is both good and bad depending on the optimisations)
3/ clone $user before cron_setup_user() in forum cron - this fixes only forum code
4/ we could add new parameter to cron_setup_user() for $cloneuser=true - forum would be resolved for now, other places that really want to use the caching could enable it
+1 for point 4 (Option to clone user and set it to true for forum (for now)).
I prefer 2) but I don't know example of where we are optimising to take advantage of this.
Where do we depend on this? see forum cron:
foreach ($users as $userto) {
foreach ($posts as $pid => $post) {
cron_setup_user($userto, $course);
the inner loop benefits from the caching because it does not have do the very expensive USER->access caching repeatedly for the same user.
Hmm, we might be actually caching the access data in another cache, but still user preferences necessary for messaging would be refetched. I am wondering if the clone is actually going to solve much because the accesslib caching would not be prevented by that much (see $ACCESSLIB_PRIVATE->accessdatabyuser[$userid]).
Rehmmm, maybe we could dedupe the role definitions in CLI scripts to reduce memory usage, it might save some memory, but it would consume CPU cycles.
Looking at this again, can we optimise this a bit more by removing:
- Assignments and using actual variables.
$userto = $users[$userid];
- After setting the session variable, unset $userto and use $_SESSION['USER']
This will avoid any extra copies and will optimise memory.
What do you think Petr?
Sorry Petr,
My Bad... was thinking in wrong direction.
I will go with 3) for now, and backport this. Hope that will solve this issue and acceptable by everyone.
Hi Rajesh,
->The patch looks good, but as Petr pointed out this will degrade performance in sites where all data fits into memory. But I don't think we have any alternative.
->User data is still cached in $ACCESSLIB_PRIVATE when the cap checks are made. Not sure if that is going to create problems or not, but for sure this needs to be tested with some large data before we can assume $ACCESSLIB_PRIVATE is not going to create any problem.
Petr: what would 'real data' be? Need a DB from a large site with these problems?
Thanks Ankit,
Petr also mentioned about this, but I am not sure how to get around this. I think this can be a bottleneck, but not sure as I can't test this.
Can you please test the patch and see if this helps.
Sorry, don't have the test data and setup that I needed to track this anymore, and it is resolved very well for us so I have to move on.
The patch is not ok, my point was to NOT clone in that inner loops.
Thanks Petr,
So it should be done like this?
foreach ($users as $userto) {
cron_setup_user(clone $userto);
foreach ($posts as $pid => $post) {
cron_setup_user($userto, $course);
foreach ($users as $userto) {
cron_setup_user(clone $userto);
foreach ($thesediscussions as $discussionid) {
cron_setup_user($userto, $course);
I am not sure, if cloning $userto for outer loop will help.
At this point, I can't find any duplicate as well for this issue. So rather then using half-way solution (which I am not sure at this point), I would propose to look at this later when MUC is done.
In the mean while, I will close this as "Will not fix", and open a sub-task for
Hello Tony and Petr,
Is it fine with you, if I close this issue and open sub-task for
MDL-23754. I am not sure about this half-way solution.
Appreciate Petr's passion to find the most elegant solution possible, but this is a significant issue for many of our large clients right now, and the fix Tony has provided fixes that issue right now on all our large sites, with no identifiable side effects that we have seen after running this in real, live, large sites.
We'll continue to run this in our managed environments, but to me this would seem to be a good interim fix for a proven performance issue in core while a more 'perfect' solution is debated.
Thanks for the quick reply Mark,
Unfortunately, we don't have a large site, on which we can test this solution.
Is it possible for you to test attached patch and let us know if it helps.
>In the mean while, I will close this as "Will not fix"
"Will not fix" a bug that consistently causes cron to throw OOM errors and sends out duplicate mail on every single cron run until the error is caught? I get that MUC might be able to handle it, but MUC is still a far ways off and a possible solution in the future is no reason to ignore critical bugs now (and really, given that with enough users to send mail to, it will fatal error, every time, this should probably be a blocker).
Hi Netspot guys - I agree we shouldn't close this - lets try and work together for a solution
Let me sum it up: the original proposed "fix" would create performance regression in the inner loop in forum cron and it would not resolve the caching problems in accesslib and it would not completely prevent memory exhaustion in forum cron caused by the user array iteration and it might create regressions elsewhere. The added "clone" in outer loop should conserve the same amount of memory in forum cron as the original proposed patch.
My +10 to improve cron performance and lower memory consumption, I personally do not have access to any real large server or backup data from it. I wrote the original code and I agree it is far from optimal, workaround is to allow more memory in cron, that was one of the reasons why we introduced $CFG->extramemorylimit - large installs can not run with default settings, sorry.
There is no noticeable speed difference in our production environments.
What you are talking about is a theoretical micro-optimisation and has no application.
Unbounded memory use for no real reason is a bug, regardless of magical configuration options.
Just a thought around this that perhaps the forum loop would benefit from a gc_collect_cycles() to help clear up the memory.
The OU guys found this was necessary in
Tony: I did not say it is "not a bug", I was only explaining why the first proposed patch was problematic. It would be really great if somebody improved the forum cron or even completely redesigned the cron execution. Please note this is GPL code where you have no guarantees, if there are bugs you can not demand them to be fixed, but you can do whatever you want with your copy of the code (well, things that GNU GPL 3 allows you). If somebody comes with better fix I guess there are not going to be any problems integrating it into moodle distribution that is available from moodle.org and if the risks are small it may be applied to all stable branches.
Oh we have forked already, I just figured upstream wanted some contributions.
I see that throughly isn't the case, based purely on theoretical proven false objections yet again, so I'll leave you to it.
P.S. This here is how all good software projects die.
oh, and "What you are talking about is a theoretical micro-optimisation and has no application." was not true in case of moodle.org when the code was introduced (around 1.8), it may not be the case now, but to me it looks like the current USER->access init is more expensive than before, but again I have no idea how much the messaging costs now, how does the rendering work, etc. In any case integrators and testers need to have a way to prove the optimisation works, the attached sc.php file is imo not very relevant to cron because it does not use capabilities and messaging, it just illustrates PHP object reference behaviour. We should collect some hard data with memory use, number of db queries+their type, execution times on different site types...
Tony: I would like to thank you for all your contributions, it is really valuable and being appreciated. I am going to look at your other unresolved issues and try to help to get them through integration if possible.
I have reviewed the patch by Rajesh now and I agree it is not correct solution either, I am going to work on my own patch now, I would really appreciate if you helped me with testing it later.
here is the patch (untested), but it should show my direction: https://github.com/skodak/moodle/compare/w20_MDL-32379_m23_forumcron
new features:
- user cache size in cron is controlled by new constant that can be overridden from config.php
- the user records are cloned before setting up session user in the outer foreach loop
- smaller user record size by unsetting more properties that are not necessary
Submitted for integration, please test. I did not feel confident enough to request stable branches, but the code should cherry pick without problems if necessary. I hope this could solve it for now...
The main moodle.git repository has just been updated with latest weekly modifications. You may wish to rebase your PULL branches to simplify history and avoid any possible merge conflicts. This would also make integrator's life easier next week.
TIA and ciao
Wow, this had somehow escaped my integration radar. Sorry.
Integrated, thanks
Looks good in my testing, but indeed this sort of thing is quite difficult to test, hence master only.
Thanks everyone!
This issue has been integrated upstream and is now available both via git and cvs (and in some hours, via mirrors and downloads).
There is a problem with moodle.org digests (
MDLSITE-1834), still trying to diagnose this, but wonder if it could be caused by this issue.
Hi, just to note that i've setup a test RIG with 600,000 users and memory still doesn't seem to be scaling properly.
I am investigating in
Linking to the MDL-46977 which states that the fields that are unset here (such as 'institution') may be used in forum conditional availability


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