Brion L. VIBBER wrote:
Does the page _stay_ blank after reloading; ie does it consistently come up blank until you resave it?
Yes it stays blank. I can tell you how I discovered this. I suspected that my response time monitoring script was seeing timeouts instead of real pages when response times where in the 500+ seconds range. So I added HTTP status code and document length to my log file. I can tell you the Main Page is 18K in normal cases and 4K when only the page header and footer are returned.
With times in GMT, the normal sequence is like this:
date time resp status url bytes 20020510 Fri 11:40:00 9.02 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18459 20020510 Fri 11:50:00 1.13 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18459
As you can see, the status code is 200 and response time very reasonable (1.13 - 9.02 seconds). But then something happens at 12:00 GMT (5:20 am PDT) Friday:
20020510 Fri 12:00:00 0.90 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3999 20020510 Fri 12:10:00 1.09 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3999
It stays this way until restored at 14:10 GMT (7:10 am PDT) Friday:
20020510 Fri 13:50:00 7.80 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3999 20020510 Fri 14:00:00 8.71 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3999 20020510 Fri 14:10:00 1.27 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18444 20020510 Fri 14:20:00 1.18 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18444
The same thing happens at 13:20 GMT (6:20 am PDT) Saturday:
20020511 Sat 13:00:00 1.65 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18443 20020511 Sat 13:10:00 1.12 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18443 20020511 Sat 13:20:00 174.32 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3998 20020511 Sat 13:30:00 3.31 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3998
And is restored at 15:40 GMT (8:40 am PDT) Saturday:
20020511 Sat 15:20:00 0.59 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3998 20020511 Sat 15:30:00 0.59 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3998 20020511 Sat 15:40:00 7.68 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18445 20020511 Sat 15:50:00 1.18 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18445
And 15:30-16:30 GMT (8:30 am - 9:30 am PDT) Sunday:
20020512 Sun 15:00:00 13.99 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18443 20020512 Sun 15:20:00 1.88 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18443 20020512 Sun 15:30:00 0.59 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3998 20020512 Sun 15:40:00 0.68 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3998 [...] 20020512 Sun 16:10:00 0.61 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3998 20020512 Sun 16:20:00 0.62 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 3998 20020512 Sun 16:30:00 4.79 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18397 20020512 Sun 16:40:00 1.22 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/ 18289
Obviously, I didn't restore the Main Page since I don't have the privileges to do this. And I have no idea who or what did this.
For the [[Sweden]] page some response time observations are so long or timed out (zero length, no status code) that log entries appear in the wrong order. The two restore times (15:50 GMT = 8:50 am PDT Saturday, and 22:50 GMT = 3:50 pm PDT Sunday) correspond to the revision History page (8:48 and 15:48), when I restored the page:
20020511 Sat 13:10:00 45.22 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 13360 20020511 Sat 13:20:00 769.98 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 13360 20020511 Sat 13:30:00 2549.62 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 0 20020511 Sat 13:40:00 2288.51 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 4577 20020511 Sat 13:50:00 940.10 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 4577 [...] 20020511 Sat 15:30:00 0.80 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 4577 20020511 Sat 15:40:00 0.81 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 4577 20020511 Sat 15:50:00 1.22 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 12807 20020511 Sat 16:00:00 1.09 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 12807 [...] 20020512 Sun 10:40:00 384.72 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 12807 20020512 Sun 11:00:00 327.15 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 12807 20020512 Sun 11:10:00 2549.62 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 0 20020512 Sun 11:20:00 2549.71 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 0 20020512 Sun 11:30:00 2549.82 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 0 20020512 Sun 12:10:00 481.58 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 4576 20020512 Sun 11:40:00 2286.75 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 4576 [...] 20020512 Sun 22:30:00 1.90 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 4576 20020512 Sun 22:40:00 0.80 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 4576 20020512 Sun 22:50:00 1.10 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 12805 20020512 Sun 23:10:00 1.10 200 http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sweden 12805