I think there is still one bug w.r.t archived handling - at least in my case the archived caches are showed as "founds" but twice (and each produces therefore two counts, not one). I think this is minor issue, but still an annoyance, if one would like to define x out of y limits. See e.g. Aland Islands check16.png OK: You found 2 out of a required 1 of the lowest elevation caches 5by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Hmm. There is something very wrong with it now - as I no longer qualify At first I thought this is only because of recent elevation calculation changes (As for example in Åland regions, the caches I've found are no longer the lowest but second lowest with slight changes to elevation). But this does not seem to explain all as for example in Monaco, I've found the lowest stillby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
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Ok, will need to test that as well later as I've had few challenges in mind but where the timeout has prevented from proceeding further with them. Thanks!by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Wow. Huge improvement. Thanks @arisoft for debug info and for helping and big thanks for @magma1447 for database optimisation! One more question though:: will this performance improvement impact (improve) the performance of checkers depending on gethighest/lowest method as well or was this only related to the original issue (ie getoldest & regions)?by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Ok, I will. thanksby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Since change of year 2024, I received error reports from many different cachers (Paulaho, wilmaaah, Nortti10) regarding my challenge https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCA0BDC (oldest caches per region) , with error being timeout. Apparently the same script that used to work for myself nowadays also times out for me. Challenge checker tag : https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA0BDC/73620by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Nowadays when testing this >When I run: https://project-gc.com/Challenges//80561 for myself (having found not that many regions in Europe), it runs almost instantly... however, I get strange results. For Schleswig-Holstein (Germany), it shows 370 caches in the results, however, there is a cache at -23m and the next is at -22m, and then a whole bunch at -1m and 0m. I'd expect it to onlyby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
No hurries. Here is also one more strange thing: if I run https://project-gc.com/Challenges//80689 (1 lowest of 10) for countries, I get only two US caches displayed United States cancel16.png Fail: You found 0 out of a required 1 of the lowest elevation caches 10 cache(s). # GCCODE elevation Found Date Name 1 GC3895 -4380 N/A HI EPE 2 GCABX9B -276 N/A Resurrection Bay Sea Caves Ifby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Ok, let's then focus getting the region's query functioning and skip the counties for nowby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Hi, "'ll have to take a look - this is why we need a debugger in the production environment :) " thanks already in advance - and I agree - sort of ;) "I can say that it's unlikely you'll ever get a lowest/highest *counties* in all of Europe to fly - not sure how many counties in Europe there are, but it's probably really high, and if you've found a cby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Oh, sorry - it was disabled indeed. OK - I changed the "top_type" parameter to "type" and now I get the lowest caches. However, when I tried to run that for the lowest cache in X counties (not countries) - see tag (now enabled) https://project-gc.com/Challenges//80562 I get exception :7495: table index is nil Would you happen to have any clue what is causing this?by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
As an immediate feedback, there at least seems to be something wrong with the top_type parameter value processing? https://project-gc.com/Challenges//80453 where I tested for "lowest" I still get the list of highest caches.by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Hi, thank you very much for this - I'll give it a look and some tests and get back if necessaryby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Hi, thanks for comments and your brief analysis. > However, I think "cachesbuffer = 2000" is excessive. It doesn't change with the size of the queried region, either. This means that even if you are only querying for caches in XXX county, it still asks the database for the top 2000 elevation caches in that county. That is probably nearly all the caches in that county. I woulby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Requesting a checker script that would enable checking all of the following: - # of countries with the country's highest elevation caches found (e.g. 3 - 6 - 12) - # of countries with the country's lowest elevation caches found (e.g. 3 - 6 - 12) - # of regions with the region's highest elevation caches found (e.g. 5 - 10 - 20) (optionally, only from given country / countires) -by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Hi, thanks for a quick answer. I'll share this information for the user and add link to cache page as alternative checker (with more information available). I'm sure this suffices.by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
TLDR: "Merelä Matti" times out (tried four times on two different dates myself). -- Thanks to Hügh, there is a script with optimized algorithm for this challenge (see https://project-gc.com/forum/read?11,71003,71045#msg-71045 for previous discussion) which has worked perfectly well until now. Recently a local cacher who had visited the challenge complained that the checker gaveby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I've created tags https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA3331/77115 https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC9ZRZF/73619 https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA0BDC/73620 for challenges published today GCA0BDC, GC9ZRZF and for GCA3331 and one user (tittat) contacted me about bug they found from the checker - apparently checker mixes regions of same name from two different countries (e.g. Beby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
OK, then perhaps it was just a temporary glitch.. I'll submit the caches again for approval, and get back to this forum if the issue persists.by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Background: I have two new challenge caches (GC9ZRZF, GCA0BDC) waiting to be published and the script it uses might need rewite/performance optimization. Both caches rely on same checker script that I found suitable for the criteria ("user must have found oldest cache from >= XX regions (countries don't matter, but the total count of oldest caches from different regions is the crby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Perfect. Thank you very much Hügh for your quick response and for good solution!by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Disclaimer: as CO, I'm fine in including locationless as part of accepted criteria.by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Looks very good, indeed. Executed this against nicks I know that have travelled 'more or less' and could not find any more issues. Are you still going to perform additional tweaks or do you consider this ready for publishing/replacing the original?by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Hi, this looks very good. However, I tested this one with a few random nicks other than those known problematic ones and found at least one that now times out ("georapo"). Will continue testing later.by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Update: got answer - additional impacted nicks "mipoded" and "satuja".by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Thanks. I only personally know of "essiva" however just a moment ago when I tested, it did not time out anymore. One Finnish reviewer let me know there were more so I've passed question to him/her to provide impacted usernames. Will get back once I hear from them.by sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Hi, background: I created challenge https://coord.info/GCA0BD7 and tagged Multiple Test Checker v2 for it https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA0BD7/74593 only to learn later that the execution of this checker times out with some geocaching nicks. As the solution to this kind of problem is complex, I've learned now that this type of solution would likely need its own script, with an aby sm07 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
I just tried to create new challenge checker script, but the create script dialog/popup gives "unknown error" after entering details to it. Any idea what is causing this or is there a service break/is service down atm?by sm07 - Script development
Asking for assistance in creating checker GC7KC3X - SuperMan 075xT5 ... Challenge Note: the challenge has been submitted for review and can be approved. However, the reviewers pointed out something in the checker output to be fixed for which I'm looking for help. I've tagged script id 1503 (Multiple test Checker (by Target.) enhanced / sumbloke) (link to tag: https://project-gc.cby sm07 - Miscellaneous