[wp-testers] Persistent Cache Turned On

[Jason Bainbridge]

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...

Regards,
--
Jason Bainbridge
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