bruinpress

My apologies! I’ll go start a fresh thread.

I’m pretty sure I’m having this problem too. My question isn’t, “how can I alleviate the symptoms?” my question is, instead, “how can I identify the source of the problem?”

I’m running this entirely on a physical linux box of my own so I have complete control. I’ve isolated that no plugins are generating extraneous HTTP requests. I’ve determined that Apache is NOT running away with RAM (at least as far as I can tell). I’ve also looked at MySQL slow queries and here’s where it gets interesting:

I can easily see that while my site is “updating,” which seems to be a blocking event as I can’t initiate any post views during that time, that there’s a single MySQL process that goes into the ‘sleep’ state for exactly the amount of time that things lock up. The lockup duration varies from ~60 to about ~200 seconds, occasionally taking a more reasonable ~5 seconds. Interestingly the ‘info’ column for the MySQL process that sleeps is ‘NULL’. Any how I can further isolate what’s going on now? I never used to see a problem like this.

*edit: minor clarification

So I wasn’t aware that SFC allowed admins to gatekeep the signups, which is a fairly important step. Also, and I confess I don’t think I was clear about this in my other post, I’d prefer users don’t have passwords just for the WP install. I’d like the *only form of auth* to be FB. Anyway, thanks for pointing out that aspect of SFC.

So Otto, is there an official way to use SFC with WP-Members? I’ll let people register on my site first, then add their FB account (which seems to be the workflow you’re saying FB corporate endorses, despite being a bit cumbersome). Unfortunately it seems SFC is somehow incompatible with WP-Members…

In a perfect world I’d like a way to have users signup entirely via Facebook (meaning they don’t need to actually type any of their info again, they just need to approve the Connect), and I’d like to have the option of requiring admin approval of users (just like WP-Members).