[wp-testers] Persistent Cache Turned On

[Chris Coggburn]

Jason Bainbridge wrote:
> On 11/12/05, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
>   
>> Jason Bainbridge wrote:
>>     
>>> I haven't gotten around to testing this properly although it is
>>> running on my live site, just fine for the most part that is except
>>> for twice when for some reason my site stopped responding like it
>>> would do if Apache is down. It did this just a few minutes ago and
>>> about the same time last night as well, simply SSH'ng in and doing a
>>> rm-rf * in wp-content/cache immediately fixed the problem both times.
>>>
>>> It was both the admin side and the actual blog that had the problem,
>>> looking at Apache's status at the time revealed there was no problems
>>> there so it is kind of strange how a caching mechanism could make your
>>> whole site stop responding.
>>>
>>> Is there anything you would like me to look at next time it happens?
>>> Take a copy of the cache directory maybe?
>>>       
>> Exact same thing happened to me, it caused that apache child/php to core
>> dump a 14MB file every time I tried to load the page.
>>
>> Maybe this code could be dramatically simplified, we're obviously
>> triggering some sort of PHP bug on error conditions.
>>     
>
> Happened again tonight, is it some time related thing? I haven't
> really got time right now to dig through the code myself...
>   
This is happening to me frequently, it's to the point where I've even
set up a cronjob to take care of the cache every two days. Very, very
annoying.
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