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No more 'Mediawiki just ate my edit!' bug

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If you have tried to edit large wiki pages on BT, you would realize that the server has a tendency to 'eat your edits and split it back out.'

This problem stemmed from the strange interaction between Lighttpd, PHP, and Mediawiki.

Well, guess what, you guys won't see this problem anymore. As a bonus, the server should be a lot faster now.

Weeeeee...
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Re: No more 'Mediawiki just ate my edit!' bug

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Can you be a bit more technically detailed? Like what arcane modification have you done to php.ini? :roll:
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If I am correct in my guess, when Lighttpd splitted off the php process as fcgi, when the text is too large, for whatever reason the process became stuck. After a while Lighttpd timeout and throws back the 500 error. Of course, the process is still running, so the list of running fcgi threads pile up until Lighttpd/PHP clear them out.

The process only become stuck with codes from Mediawiki- other heavy lifting php pages are fine for some reason.

In other word, I have no idea why this happened.
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Re: No more 'Mediawiki just ate my edit!' bug

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thelastguardian wrote:If I am correct in my guess, when Lighttpd splitted off the php process as fcgi, when the text is too large....blahblahblahblahbbqsaucelolisteaklmaowtflolblahblahblah...
....but somehow the "mysterious" solution to this unknown problem fixed all our woes?

Well, I'm glad someone knows what they are doing around here......

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thelastguardian wrote: ....In other word, I have no idea why this happened.

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