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
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