[pmwiki-users] Site not responding

[Shaney Crawford]

Hi Patrick,

It is 270 KB.  Is that too big?

Shaney.

On 1/5/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:48:03AM +0900, Shaney Crawford wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am not 100% sure, but it might have been a problem with the following
> > recipe.
> >
> > totalcounter_1_6.php
> >
> > I have used totalcounter for a long time, though, and never had
> > problems with it, so I am not convinced that it is the real problem.
>
> Out of curiosity -- how big is the .total_counter file in your
> wiki.d/ directory?
>
> I'm wondering if it has become too large to load into memory, since
> I don't see anything in the TotalCounter recipe that
> clears out old entries into the $TotalCounter array.  Thus the
> $TotalCounter array just keeps getting larger and larger, until
> eventually it takes up too many resources to be able to produce
> a page and/or process the .total_counter file.
>
> > Could it be a problem with the beta version of pmwiki?  (That is what
> > my hosting company suggested I look into.)
>
> I doubt it's related to the beta version of PmWiki -- that's
> what is running on the pmwiki.org site.  It really sounds to me
> as though a recipe (in this case, totalcounter) is growing
> ever larger and not releasing the resources it's using.
>
> I'm not sure why the site would be slow even after removing
> totalcounter from the configuration -- it may be that
> there is something else eating up resources (and that cleared
> itself off).
>
> I'll be glad to help troubleshoot further.  I really am
> curious about the size of the .total_counter file -- if it's
> really large, and the recipe really doesn't have a mechanism
> for periodically reducing the size of the file, then every
> site that is running TotalCounter will eventually run into
> this problem (or will experience extremely slow load times
> as the TotalCounter recipe has to process the ever-larger
> data file).
>
> Pm
>
>
>
>
> > On 1/5/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > >On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:49:42AM +0900, Shaney Crawford wrote:
> > >> On 1/4/07, dso <dso at moosoft.com> wrote:
> > >> > Shaney Crawford wrote:
> > >> > > My site is not responding for some reason.  It was fine yesterday
> > >> > > morning, but then in the afternoon, it was not responding.  I didn't
> > >> > > make any changes to it during that time.
> > >> >
> > >> > Probably some kind of loop caused by a recipe.  Try disabling them and
> > >> > then adding them back.  I've also had to change the order on a few of
> > >them.
> > >>
> > >> That seems to have worked.  Thank you!
> > >>
> > >> I'm not sure why it happened all of a sudden since I didn't add any
> > >> recipes yesterday.  Very strange.
> > >
> > >Which recipe(s) appeared to be causing the problem?  We should
> > >probably see about fixing the recipe to avoid the problem, or
> > >at least leave a note on the page in case others encounter the
> > >same difficulty.
> > >
> > >Pm
> > >
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