Errors displaying an an old thread. February 22, 2005 7:36 AM   Subscribe

Errors displaying an an old thread. [more inside]
posted by grouse to Bugs at 7:36 AM (11 comments total)

Error Occurred While Processing Request
The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code.

Null Pointers are another name for undefined values.

I'm pretty sure it's not in my code.
posted by grouse at 7:36 AM on February 22, 2005


And the layout of the page is a little borked, also. Neither of the threads on either side of it show any problems.
posted by Plutor at 7:45 AM on February 22, 2005


Sounds like a needed category for the "flag" button: broken page.
posted by ALongDecember at 7:58 AM on February 22, 2005


I'm tempted to flag that post, but I don't know which exclamation mark to use.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 7:58 AM on February 22, 2005


I've also noticed that older threads seem to take longer to display, which seems odd if they're all in the same database.
posted by orthogonality at 8:03 AM on February 22, 2005


Thanks for leading me to the MeTa callout of that post, though. That was fun. And sobering.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:11 AM on February 22, 2005


Newer threads are in memory cache. The database has to go back to disk to get older threads. Or at least that's my guess. Although a thread linked from a MeTa that was linked from the front page should be active enough to be cached, too.
posted by Plutor at 8:30 AM on February 22, 2005


I've also noticed that older threads seem to take longer to display, which seems odd if they're all in the same database.

They used to be served up as archived flat files, but now they're coming from the database, before they weren't. The change was made a couple weeks ago when I changed the archive system and it totally crashed the server repeatedly.

I think that old thread was deleted before I had a proper deletion method in place.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:33 AM on February 22, 2005


That was a great MeTa thread. "I predict the phrase 'taking myself to meta' will soon become the euphemism du jour for onanists everywhere." Heh. And the tradition lives on!
posted by languagehat at 8:37 AM on February 22, 2005


Newer threads are in memory cache.

ROFL!
posted by quonsar at 8:38 AM on February 22, 2005


Matt sure set me straight.
posted by Plutor at 10:33 AM on February 22, 2005


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