vBulletin Quick Links View Site Leaders Error

[Christopher824]

On the sub menu of this forum, under Quick Links there is an option called View Site Leaders. Every time I try it I get an error. Is this something one would contact vBulletin Solutions, NV3 as bug report or can a moderator look into it? Here is the error text;

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 296104320 bytes) in /var/www/html/external/forums.auran.com/trainz/includes/class_core.php on line 417

 

[clam1952]

It's not worked for a very long time. Presumably no one else has bothered to look at it!

 

[wreeder]

That error message is from the server hosting this forum. It isn't a software bug. It simply means there isn't enough free memory to run whatever function is called on line 417 of the class_core.php script. Considering it needs nearly 300 MB of memory I'm not surprised. That is a lot of memory for a hosting account on a shared hosting server to have available for scripts.

N3V has a "Web Guy" as they have referred to him that might be interested but if it means spending more money then I doubt they would consider what is mostly a vanity feature worth the cost.

This version of vBulletin used by this forum is quite old but still is supported for security updates. I assume it is the old free version that many hosting companies offer as part of their hosting plans. Newer versions have much better spam protection and considering how much spam is seen these days it might be worth a look but again there is the cost of upgrading.

William

 

[1611mac]

I hope N3V never "downgrades" the forums to the non-friendly type where there are no user options like "View first unread," etc. To me, on active forums, "view first unread" is almost mandatory. There is a game forum on Steam that I view daily and just finding the last read thread in a post is a pain.

Thank you N3V for using vBulletin and it's options! +1

 

[Christopher824]

That error message is from the server hosting this forum. It isn't a software bug.
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William

I checked on the vBulletin forum and it is a known issue with ver 4.2.x

They describe 2 work arounds;

1) Turn it off. AdminCP > Settings > Options > General Settings > Enable Forum Leaders Set this to "No".

2) Limit what it looks at, they recommend to not show registered users, only admins and moderators. So you would modify the SQL statement to not include them by removing the bold text in the code below.

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:

            REPLACE INTO cache
            SET cacheid = 'showgroups.groupcache',
                expires = 1340213057,
                created = 1340202257,
                locktime = 0,
                data = "[B]a:14:{s:16:\"REGISTERED USERS\"[/B];a:4643:{s:5:\"EWEBS\";

This feature is something very low priority, my suggestion would be just to remove the menu item.

 

[clam1952]

From what I recall from when it did work, it only showed the top few users with the most posts.