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Nerdica.Net upgraded to Friendica 3.6.0-RC
Today I switched over to version 3.6.0-rc of Friendica.

This resulted in some hours of downtime, because the database kept updating over and over again until I realized that it was looping and what the problem was.

It was always updating the item table and the reason was that the database setting needed to be changed:

innodb_log_file_size=64M

This setting previously was set to 4M, which was not enough memory.

Running "./scripts/dbstructure.php update" did the trick, as advised by @utzer in https://social.yl.ms/display/e18176ef105a9489d4c4430265145457

However, it also seems that my setting for memcached is not working anymore when set to true:

$a->config['system']['memcache'] = false;
$a->config['system']['memcache_host'] = "127.0.0.1";
$a->config['system']['memcache_port'] = 11211;

When set to true I'm unable presented with the login page, but unable to login anymore.

But beside that the new version seems to run pretty well so far.

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in reply to Ingo Jürgensmann

While the update the website presented me with updates from time to time:

System down for maintenance
2018-03-03 17:55:02 UTC: updating item table.

After some hours I started mytop and discovered that each time it was the same table that was ALTERed/copied to a new temp table. At first I thought that multiple updates were necessary for each of other table dependencies, especially because there were notes of a long lasting DB update in the Friendica forum.