Can no longer load blog

[garvinhicking]

Well, corrupt cookies cannot be the problem. Else I would be able to connect to your blog, and I'm not.

There is still something wrong with your server...

Regards,
Garvin

[donniev]

Actually there were apparently many problems. I did have corrupted cookies on my box but that was phpmyadmin not s9y. After I solved that and started backing up database phpmyadmin started throwing errors like crazy about cookie_path not sent etc. I restored php and phpmyadmin from backup and that solved that problem. I also exported the s9y db and did a fresh install and imported the db. Site appears to be working fine now. I also eliminated a remote_image plugin but I dont think that is an issue. I had been thinking about yanking that anyway.

Of course since I made multiple changes I don't yet have a root cause but since phpmyadmin and s9y were both foobar my guess is that something went south with php itself. I have spent enough cycles on this and really don't have time to dig any deeper. I certainly do appreciate your help though. Too bad that the trouble manifested itself in the blog. I am still puzzled by why the other instance worked, but then many things in life puzzle me.

Anyway you can now see the blizzard of '05 at http://blog.vawter.com

[garvinhicking]

I don't mean to be a negative guy, but I must tell you that your site still does not render fast for me. It took about 1,5 minutes to load up your blog.

Maybe if you still care to look after it you could check out the APD Debugger (http://pecl.php.net/package/apd) and install it as PHP extensions. It allows you to create debugging files with just some basic instructions. If you de-comment the line apd_set_pprof_trace() inside index.php of Serendipity (or activate $global_debug) you can easily interface it. The files created by APD can be visually evaluated by kvalgrind or valgrind utilities.

There you could see which parts of Serendipity take so much time...

Which event plugins do you have installed, BTW?

Regards,
Garvin

[donniev]

Hmmh I just had a friend in Atlanta check and he said it loaded in under 2 secs.


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[garvinhicking]

Now that I tried it did in fact load in 2-3 seconds. Well, maybe this time it was me having a bandwidth problems or sth. like that

Regards,
Garvin

[nyquil]

I had exactly the same problem last week. The culprit ended up being an RSS feed I had in a sidebar that wasn't accessable. Apparantly the whole backend was waiting for the feed to fetch, but it eventually timed out. serendipity_admin.php would load right away, but not the body. It either wouldn't load, or it would take like >2 minutes to load. Removing that sidebar plugin caused it to load instantly. Adding again and it wouldn't load.