Re: Hung requests with SPIP 2.0.5

Hi Fil,

On 25/06/2009, at 3:13 PM, Fil wrote:

>> We've encountered a problem with a client's site based on SPIP 2.0.5.
>> Sometimes a request for a public page will hang. I've never seen the
>> problem, but others here have. We can solve the problem by deleting
>> everything in /tmp/ via FTP and reloading the page.
>
> No it's not a known problem, but I have a similar experience on a very
> low traffic site I have. Sometimes, when you haven't gone to visit the
> site for a long time, you just don't get a page at all. It "breaks"
> and gives a white page. Probably the time needed for the database to
> reload its tables? I don't know. But reloading makes the page appear.

That sounds like it might be a different problem.

This is a relatively well visited site (peak of 400, average of 200  
visits per day according to SPIP) and it's on the same web and  
database servers as most of our other sites and they haven't had this  
problem. When we (or our clients) see this, the request does not  
complete. The browser just sits there, in progress -- downloading  
nothing -- forever (or until HTTP time-out).

The client is a retail business and they use the site in their shops  
to show customers products they don't have on display, so it's  
something of a problem.

Cheers,

Thomas Sutton

Web Developer
bouncingorange
graphic + web design