[geeklog-devel] No articles on geeklog.net when not logged in?

Wim Niemans niemans at nlbox.com
Wed Sep 2 02:31:03 EDT 2015


Also see http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=1750 <http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=1750>

That issue is about the "1” appearing in the content.
My latest note shows that it influences also the cache when cache is on.

Have not looked at the current status; just hope this helps.
> 

> Op 2 sep. 2015, om 02:42 heeft Dan Stoner <danstoner at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Here is what I found... hope it helps someone.
> 
> 
> 1.
> The PHP function filemtime() returns a unix timestamp that is precise to the second.
> 
> This is a rather large window of time for two requests to interact (two cache writes triggered within a second).
> 
> 
> 
> 2. 
> > Who's familiar enough with that code to add some debug statements?
> 
> 
> I poked at template.class.php.  It already has some debug bits ready to be enabled:
> 
> 
> 
>  /**
>   * Determines how much debugging output Template will produce.
>   * This is a bitwise mask of available debug levels:
>   * 0 = no debugging
>   * 1 = debug variable assignments
>   * 2 = debug calls to get variable
>   * 4 = debug internals (outputs all function calls with parameters).
>   * 8 = debug caching (incomplete)
>   *
>   * Note: setting $this->debug = true will enable debugging of variable
>   * assignments only which is the same behaviour as versions up to release 7.2d.
>   *
>   * @var       int
>   * @access    public
>   */
>   var $debug    = 0;
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The "touch" command is used to create an empty file.  I suspect this is the command that is actually creating the empty file. This code is a possible area to investigate:
> 
> 
> 
>         if ($TEMPLATE_OPTIONS['cache_by_language']) {
>             $extra_path = $_CONF['language'] . '/' . $extra_path;
>             if (!is_dir($TEMPLATE_OPTIONS['path_cache'] . $_CONF['language'])) {
>                 @mkdir($TEMPLATE_OPTIONS['path_cache'] . $_CONF['language']);
>                 @touch($TEMPLATE_OPTIONS['path_cache'] . $_CONF['language'] . '/index.html');
>             }
>         }
> 
> 
> 
> 
> And there are already some debug statements in there just waiting for debug to be set to level 8.
> 
>         if ($this->debug & 8) {
>             printf("<check_cache> Look for %s<br>", $filename);
>         }
> 
> 
> 
> The actual write of the cache file begins at Line 1685. There are no debug statements there. What does PHP do if the file write fails? I don't see any error trapping / exception handling in there.
> 
>         $f = @fopen($filename,'w');
>         if ($f !== false ) {
>             if ($TEMPLATE_OPTIONS['incl_phpself_header']) {
>                 fwrite($f,
> "<?php if (!defined('VERSION')) {
>     die ('This file can not be used on its own.');
> } ?>\n");
>             }
>             fwrite($f, $tmplt);
>             fclose($f);
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 3. After writing up everything above, I was thinking back to some experience with Wordpress caching in a previous life and some of the hiccups we ran into.
> 
> If PHP is using one of its caching systems such as Alternative PHP Cache (APC), and depending on the server configuration (FastCGI), you can get unexpected results trying to use functions such as filemtime since one PHP process may cache the previous stat result even though another PHP process has "changed something on the filesystem".
> 
> 
> 4. A server configuration difference in either PHP process mode (modphp vs. fastcgi vs. php-fpm), PHP cache layer, etc. could explain why Tom is not able to reproduce the issue.
> 
> Or, the actual traffic hitting geeklog.net <http://geeklog.net/> is just particular or peculiar.
> 
> 
> 
> - Dan Stoner
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de <mailto:dirk at haun-online.de>> wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> 
> > Yes clearing the articles fixes the problem (which I just did).  Not sure
> > why but it only seems to happen on Geeklog.net one in a blue moon (the cache
> > files exist but have no text).
> 
> We seem to have a few more blue moons these days. I noticed the problem again a few days ago and deleted the cache and now it has happened again.
> 
> Who's familiar enough with that code to add some debug statements?
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 
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