Admin page (and any locally served page) slows considerably.

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Debug token: 80ugeeu6xi

sudo tail /var/log/lighttpd/error.log 2018-01-15 17:05:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137 2018-01-15 17:05:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: file(http://127.0.0.1/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/queryads.php?domain=netmarbleslog.netmarble.com&bp): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 136 2018-01-15 17:05:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_filter() expects parameter 1 to be array, string given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137 2018-01-15 17:05:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137 2018-01-15 17:05:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: file(http://127.0.0.1/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/queryads.php?domain=netmarbleslog.netmarble.com&bp): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 136 2018-01-15 17:05:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_filter() expects parameter 1 to be array, string given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137 2018-01-15 17:05:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137 2018-01-15 17:05:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: file(http://127.0.0.1/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/queryads.php?domain=netmarbleslog.netmarble.com&bp): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 136 2018-01-15 17:05:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_filter() expects parameter 1 to be array, string given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137 2018-01-15 17:05:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137

I blocked "netmarbleslog.netmarble.com" (without quotes) using the black list "exact" function. This is while the program that was contacting that domain was still running on another computer on the network, and that computer used the pihole as its DNS.

At some point after blocking it, I noticed the admin page was terribly slow. Rebooting the pi and changing a number of settings (aside from unblocking that domain) had no effect. Any page that the pi/lighttpd served was slow.

Eventually I looked at the error logs and noticed it was full of what you see above. Decided to finally close out the program and suddenly, with no other actions taken, the pihole admin page was super responsive again.

So far, with the program running the issue has not returned. It's been about an hour since I restarted the program and gotten my page load times reduced.

I should also mention, I reinstalled raspbian and pihole on a new sdcard, fresh and got this same issue once I blocked that domain while running the program. So it's recreatable in that sense. I just thought my old install had shit the bed.

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4 hours after rebooting the program (not pihole or the pi, but the program on the other computer), no slow down.

4 1/2 hours after rebooting the program (+30 min from the above), slow downs.

Error log once again populated with many lines like this: 2018-01-15 19:35:13: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 137 2018-01-15 19:35:13: (mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: file(http://127.0.0.1/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/queryads.php?domain=netmarbleslog.netmarble.com&bp): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 136

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Thank you, daddy.

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