Newbie question re generating demo data

Support & Bugs
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Hi, I’m trying to generate demo data to try out some plugins and IE8 won’t run the script on the api page, fails with ‘site not responding’ message.

Firefox 3.5 gets a little further then fails with this message ‘Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /home/compiley/public_html/piwik/core/Common.php on line 665’. I guess this is to do with the 35Mb memory limit my hosting company impose on me.

Next I edited the php script to reduce the volume of data generated and got ‘Time elapsed: 11.406sSQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away’.

I assume the data is being generated in memory and gets written to the database at the end of the job - can some SKS advise how I can go forward please.

TIA

John Dobson

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Run misc/generateVisits.php from the command-line. The demo data is loaded into idsite 1. Keep that in mind before you go live.

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On my part, after generating the demo data on my first install, the widgets were still showing no stats at all. But all data where still in the DB.

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I finally got shell access provisioned by my hosting company and executed the script using the PHP / CLI interface. Can someone please assist with the following error message:

]# ./generateVisits.php


Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Session_Exception’ with message ‘Session must be started before any output has been sent to the browser; output started in /0’ in /home/compiley/public_html/piwik/libs/Zend/Session.php:359
Stack trace:
#0 /home/compiley/public_html/piwik/index.php(50): Zend_Session::start()
#1 /home/compiley/public_html/piwik/misc/generateVisits.php(42): require_once(’/home/compiley/…’)
#2 {main} thrown in /home/compiley/public_html/piwik/libs/Zend/Session.php on line 359

[~/www/piwik/misc]#

I had to add a line to the top of the file to execute and suspect that my be at the heart of the problem. The added line is:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

John Dobson