patchchord

Thanks again, Whooami. I think you were on the right track…

So, the weirdest thing: I was looking at my Dreamhost hosting settings for my domain and noticed that for some weird reason, my PHP version was set to some funky modified 4.x version rather 5.2.x. After changing that, everything has been fine. I would have *never* changed that, so I’m confused on how that could’ve happened.

But, never one to be satisified with an easy fix, I would be curious as to WHY the PHP version would cause issues. Anyone care to enlighten me?

[I’m going to mark this issue as resolved as soon as I feel the site has stabilized…so another day or two perhaps.]

So, the interesting turn this morning as that the entire site went white on me. The first step in diagnosing was to disable all plugins via FTP. (In my searching the forums, I stumbled on that nifty little trick of just renaming the plugins dir, which did the trick nicely.)

The weird part is that I’ve only been able to successfully reinstall maybe a third of the original plugins I had running. Site is back up and running, but my access to wp-admin doesn’t feel reliable…sometimes it’s fine and sometimes I get the blank page.

Checking the site error logs, I’m seeing what I believe is an unusual amount of activity. Here’s a sample for a half-hour period…

[Wed May 28 21:00:15 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:10 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:14 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:16 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:18 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:20 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:22 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:30 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:38 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:39 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:03:44 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:07:28 2008] [crit] [client 69.247.209.218] (12)Cannot allocate memory: default_handler: mmap failed: /home/patchchord/patchchord.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/phoenix_brightkite.jpg
[Wed May 28 21:10:26 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:10:27 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:10:28 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:10:29 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:10:33 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:10:38 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:10:40 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:10:50 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:10:52 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:30:41 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:30:51 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:32:13 2008] [error] WordPress database error MySQL client ran out of memory for query SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'rss_0ff4b43bd116a9d8720d689c80e7dfd4' LIMIT 1 made by get_option
[Wed May 28 21:32:16 2008] [error] out of memory at line 1, column 0

I’m still stymied here…

Thanks for the speedy response, Whooami. Could you please advise as to what I should be looking for within my error.log file?