On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:39 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13 October 2012 14:35, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm getting reports on rationalwiki.org of occasional blank
>> watchlists. The symptoms are that a completely empty page loads
>> immediately. It's running 1.19.1 in Ubuntu 10.04 with Apache
>> 2.2.14-ubuntu.
>> Of course, I changed *two* things last night: (a) cut max memory for
>> PHP from 256MB to 64MB (b) switched off KeepAlive in Apache. (I'm
>> quite keen to keep both of these, as the server CPU and memory went
>> *right* down.)
>
>
> SOLVED - by upping max memory from 64MB to 96MB. Dunno what was
> breaking, but the users with the problem are reporting they can get a
> watchlist now.
>

Indeed. You're probably fixing some other bugs as well by upping that
limit. Really, PHP should have about 100M of memory available to it to
run MediaWiki. We're a memory hog, but hey, them's the breaks.

> (Tangentially, I see a pile of PHP errors concerning LiquidThreads
> running out of memory, and we still use the awful thing. Even though
> I'd happily set it on fire. Is it known to be pretty fat with memory?)
>

I don't know of any specific complaints about LQT w.r.t memory, but
generally speaking, more extensions -> more memory needed.

-Chad

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