Section Macro causes page timeout

Summary

Solution

Problem

As Described in The Following Bug's:

• CONFSERVER-35285 - Slowness Rendering a Page with the 'Section' Macro

• CONFSERVER-38323 - Section Macro Causes page Timeout

The 'Section' Macro can cause Slowness and in some cases a Page Time out to Occur when a large body of text is added directly to the base of the macro. The Macro is designed to be a Nesting macro for column macros, as described here: Page Layouts, Columns and Sectionsand once the page timeout occurs you can be locked out of the page entirely.

• Edit page Page

• Add Section Macro

• Add large body of text to the Macro outside a Column macro

• Save

• Page will be locked and you will receive a Page unavailable screen and the System CPU will be pegged at 100% slowing down the entire system for 60 seconds

Environment

• Confluence Cloud

Workaround

Step 1

First you will need to locate the page ID of the erring page, And will need Firebug

• http://getfirebug.com/

Step 2

Once installed on your browser:

• Go the Spaces >> space Directory >> The space with the erring page

• Space Tools >> Content Tools >> Reorder Pages >> Expand page tree

• Right Click the page and inspect with Firebug:

• And The page Id will look like this:

Step 3

Now you can Use the page ID to gain access to the edit Page action by

• Alter the Following URL to point to the page ID located in step 2 which in my example was 10584109

• Cut all the text out of the Section Macro

• Insert a Column Macro Into The Section Macro

• Paste text into the column macro

• save page

• And You will now be able to access the page without errors