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High Volume Bug?

SasquatchSasquatch
edited October 2007 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
Hey all,

We run Vanilla and have have seen a good amount of traffic recently. And all of a sudden we have been experiencing weird system crashing bugs. One of which seems to be the conf/settings.php getting wiped, causing the system to go down altogether. Statistics plugin options.inc file getting wiped causing that to break, and some inconsistencies in the JQMedia plug-in. We have also been dealing with a bit of trouble with our hosting, mediatemple.net which is usually pretty reliable. Does vanilla have trouble with higher volumes of posting? Could this be a hosting issue. I'm getting a bit worried because we are just starting out and I don't want our user base to get frustrated. Our current numbers are:

Discussions: 650
Comments: 13965
Users: 279
Posts per 24 hours: 400-500 sometimes in the 700's

From Analytics:
Around 600-700 visits a day


Any advice/help is GREATLY appreciated

Comments

  • MySchizoBuddyMySchizoBuddy
    the JQmedia bug is well know, and so far we don't have a good solution for it.
    I guess i'll have to check if webRoot is returned false or not.
  • SasquatchSasquatch
    Yeah, but that couldn't cause all of the other issues could it?
  • DinoboffDinoboff
    edited October 2007
    There is no locking feature preventing settings.php to be wiped out If 2 instance of php try to write it at the same time. That happens when an extension try to update the file an each load. Vanilla 1.1.3+ still doesn't lock settings.php but won't update it if it's unnecessary.
  • MySchizoBuddyMySchizoBuddy
    edited October 2007
    so one of the extensions he has installed is writing to the settings.php without checking if the parameter already exist. thats not how it should be done.
  • SasquatchSasquatch
    I don't know, it seems as though it happens when my hosting provider says its having 'LATENCY' issues. Maybe the lag in server response is heightening the probability of this happening? Now that I think about it that seems likely but I'll leave official judgment to the experts.
  • WallPhoneWallPhone
    Yes, lag will definitely make this more likely to happen. Updating to 1.1.3 should resolve the issue in 90% of the cases.

    A quick fix if you need to postpone upgrading would be to make sure that your library/framework/Framework.Functions.php file's AddConfigurationSetting function (right at the top) looks like the one in this post: JQThickBox # 58
  • circuitcircuit
    for your settings.php issue, try this: http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/6428/2/woke-up-this-morning-vanilla-asking-me-to-install/
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