My settings / Save changes isn't working currently

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: SomeoneElse
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 1.10am, Thursday, 1st March 2012]

If you try and change anything via "my settings" (e.g. default choice of editor, home location) "save changes" doesn't save - the page just displays "waiting for www.openstreetmap.org...".

This was prompted by this help question:

http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/10902/si-me-equivoque-al-marcar-mi-posicion-como-lo-corrijo-o-sea-como-pongo-la-corecta

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Gnonthgol
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.46pm, Thursday, 1st March 2012]

It does not timeout but a simple test with no changes and no OpenID on my account took over 7 minutes to complete. The instances at api06.dev.osm.org and tomh.apis.dev.osm.org does not have this problem so it may be a problem with the server settings or the database settings.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.09am, Friday, 2nd March 2012]

The delay is related to cache invalidation, so depends on how many diary entries, comments, traces, etc you have. Plus it only happens on the live site as the dev sites don't have caching enabled.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: smsm1
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.36am, Friday, 2nd March 2012]

Can the cache validation be pushed into a background task to improve responsiveness for the end user?

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Gnonthgol
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.27am, Saturday, 3rd March 2012]

Patch e7a0302 seems to fix it.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.17am, Saturday, 3rd March 2012]

Actually is was 5564bcabb not e7a0302 and it doesn't really solve it, it just mitigates it and gets us back to where we were until a week or two ago.

There is still a delay if you change the username or the picture, just not when you change other things.