Another tip is to run your cron
task often in order to clear out your database of stale data including old log entries (saved through the Drupal watchdog module), cache entries that have not been cleared when you cleared your cache tables, and any other stale data. The cron
task will also activate other maintenance tasks on your site and force these tasks to run, including re-indexing your site for the Drupal search functionality, force RSS feeds to refresh with new feed content and to update and perform various tasks that are dependent on this utility. For example, if you have the Statistics module enabled, you'll need to run cron
in order to index your latest page hits and views. You will also need to run cron
in order to activate the Search module indexing of your site's new content.
To run cron
you tell Drupal when to execute the cron.php
script that sits at the root of your site's directory. cron
will then run on a specified timetable—either immediately if you...