Just to add to the discussion.
My site went “down” the other day. No page would be displayed. After sometime diagnosing the problem, we eventually found Slimstat to be the cause.
I disable the plugin and all was well. I found this post and implemented yk11’s fix, re-enabled Slimstat and were back up. However I am receiving an alert bar regarding a location based service from Maxmind. I clicked the link to enable but received another alert saying it couldn’t unzip a file. I am guessing this has to do with permissions but I am not sure what level permissions need to be enabled and to which directory.
Other than that, thanks for the fix and love the plug-in.
