[pmwiki-users] Total Counter 1.8a locked my site

SteP step.list+pmwiki at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 09:49:37 CDT 2007


The potential for a site lockup to occur again is right in the code.
The author of the file locking code issued a quick-and-dirty fix discussed here:
http://mechresource.myvnc.com/board/?t=12

The fix isn't integrated in the TotalCounter recipe.

Mateusz Czaplinski wrote:

> It rather isn't, the 1.9 is a feature-adding version. And I once also
> did have such a problem with 1.8a :/ - though not yet with 1.9; hope
> it doesn't reoccur... ? :/

> SteP wrote:
> 
> > Pete Jones wrote:
> > 
> >> I am having a problem with TotalCounter version 1.8a running on
> >> pmwiki version 2.1.27
> >> 
> >> Every now and again my site is completely unreachable and I have
> >> found that in the wiki.d directory besides the totalcounter.stat file
> >> that holds the statistics on the page visited there is another file
> >> created called totalcounter.stat.l. This file has no data in it and
> >> is of size 0 bytes.
> >> 
> >> When totalcounter.stat.l is deleted the site is gain accessible. It 
> >> started occuring a couple of months ago at irregular intervals but
> >> now it has happened twice in 24 hours.
> >> 
> >> Anyone have any ideas please?
> >> 
> > 
> > I have just experienced the same problem, my site was completely
> > unreachable. totalcounter.stat.l wasn't empty though, it just included
> > the word "lock" which makes me think that totalcounter 1.8a isn't
> > totally safe with simultaneous access. 
> > 
> > Does anyone know if this problem is fixed in version 1.9 ?




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