Problem

As Described in The Following Bug's:

• CONF-35285 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• CONF-38323 - Getting issue details... STATUS

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 Sections and 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

https://<INSERT_BASE_URL_HERE>.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/editpage.action?pageId=<Insert_Page_ID_HERE>

• 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