[wp-hackers] Incredibly High PHP Creation Times on WP SVN?

[Omry Yadan]

Computer Guru wrote:

> I'll be damned!
>
> "This gzipped page was brought to you in 115.8840 seconds over 26 queries."
> (it was that long - and it's not gzipped.)
>
> Yet XDebug/WinGrindCache claims that the total for that request was "only" 28,258ms... which is a lot, but not exactly 115 seconds worth of info. But nevermind that.
>
> It seems that 17k ms went to the flock() function in the wp object cache!!!  - and that's just to get a file lock.
>   

Getting a file lock can potentially take a very long time, if other
processes are holding the lock for a long time.
this may be a symptom caused by another problem.