PW 3.0 + PHP 7 creates huge latency (but not if signed in as admin!)

[strandoo]

Hello. I've come across strange behaviour under the following situation. Maybe someone can explain what's happening?

PW 3.0.42 running on a FastHost php 7 server. Initial page loads have about a 6 second latency! At first I thought I had some bad code, but I stripped everything back to the most simplest of pages, still with a huge loading delay. Once I log in as a superuser, the pages load normally (150-200ms). This was happening on at 3 sites. All pages had a latency of about 6 sec. until I logged in to the admin panel. I also have one or two PW 3 sites running on an older php5.6 account, which runs normally.

I downgraded one of the php 7 sites to php 5.6 and the pages loaded normally.

One more thing that may or may not be related: I did get an error "WARNING: SET_TIME_LIMIT() HAS BEEN DISABLED FOR SECURITY". That took me down a path of setting the max_execution_time in .htaccess. Which also inspired me to downgrade from php7 to 5.

The curious thing is how signing in as a superuser solves the problem. Thanks. - Paul

[hettiger]

5 hours ago, strandoo said:

Hello. I've come across strange behaviour under the following situation. Maybe someone can explain what's happening?

PW 3.0.42 running on a FastHost php 7 server. Initial page loads have about a 6 second latency! At first I thought I had some bad code, but I stripped everything back to the most simplest of pages, still with a huge loading delay. Once I log in as a superuser, the pages load normally (150-200ms). This was happening on at 3 sites. All pages had a latency of about 6 sec. until I logged in to the admin panel. I also have one or two PW 3 sites running on an older php5.6 account, which runs normally.

I downgraded one of the php 7 sites to php 5.6 and the pages loaded normally.

One more thing that may or may not be related: I did get an error "WARNING: SET_TIME_LIMIT() HAS BEEN DISABLED FOR SECURITY". That took me down a path of setting the max_execution_time in .htaccess. Which also inspired me to downgrade from php7 to 5.

The curious thing is how signing in as a superuser solves the problem. Thanks. - Paul

Can you reproduce this behavior using a clean install of ProcessWire? I've had no issues running PW3 on PHP 7 so far. It's running like a champ and much faster on 7 thought

[pine3ree]

@strandoo

same (no issues) here....using pw 3 + php 7.0 with page load times from 27 to 66 ms and the memory usage ranges from 2 to 4 MB.

Can You give some details (number of db queries, number of fields, templates, pages, installed modules)?. I also suggest to try a clean basic-profile install and see if the issue disappears. Then enable 1 module at a time and see what happens using a second browser (or a private navigation window) for visiting as guest user.

kind regards.

[strandoo]

Thanks for the suggestions. I did do a fresh install with the default theme to a subfolder on the same server. No extra modules, no new pages. Same thing: fast/normal when logged into the admin; sloooooow when not. I did get another warning about 'Warning: set_time_limit() has been disabled for security reasons', so I'll probably contact the hosting company and see if they can suggest anything. I'd like to be able to set a time limit, just to rule that out; I can do it in htaccess for php5, but I can't figure out how to do it for php 7. I can work around the issue by reverting to php 5, but that's not great.

[hettiger]

That's really weird. Please make sure to keep us updated if you or your hosting company finds a solution so others can find help here.