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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
