Ever since upgrading to 4.3, my activity log has been filled with "Added Summary Watcher to Queue". These entries apparently get added whenever run-periodic-tasks is kicked off.
So, what is the Summary Watcher? Why is it being added to a queue? What queue? And does it really need to be done every time?
Thanks!
Reported on Movable Type 4.3
Did you read the release announcement for 4.3?
Fair enough. According to the release notes it generates summaries of the DB to improve performance for certain queries.
I don't see any other documentation on the mt.org site, so I'm not sure if this is still expected behavior for it to run so often and report itself in the activity log.
Maybe you can get a response out of them.
As to the frequency and whether it should report itself: yes. And if you want gory details, I suppose you can follow through these bits.
One of the template sets included with the MT5 beta starts actually making external use of the Summary framework if you want to see how to go about that. I can't remember which at the moment.