[Mediawiki-l] 100% CPU runaway with filecache in 1.3.0beta6

[Brion Vibber]

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Brion Vibber wrote:
| (Side note: the file cache doesn't interact well with output-buffered
| gzipping. Comment out the line that sets that near the top of
| LocalSettings.php; unfortunately that doesn't solve this problem.)
|
| The output is being written out to the cache file *and sent to the
| client* but the connection hangs there. I'm not sure why yet...

Found the problem. It seems that the buffer is being passed by reference
on PHP 4.1; the variable is modified by the function and all goes to
hell. Making a copy to operate on gets things working.

Diff attached; fix just added to CVS head and 1.3 branch.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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