This is concerning Wowroster 1.7.2:

In lib/rosterdiag.lib.php in function GrabRemoteVersions() there's the following line:

$handle = fopen($svnremote, 'rb');

If wowroster.net is down that line will not create a handle and the program will be stuck in the following loop:

while (!feof($handle))
{
$contents .= fread($handle, 1024*80);
}

There should be a check on the first line to see if fopen fails or not and return from the function with an appropriate error message or return code.

Last night I couldn't reach wowroster.net and my webserver logs blew up to several hundred MB's in a matter of seconds, which caused my whole server to crash.

Thanks in advance for any help.

WoW...
I'm very sorry

I guess the code was written in a way that it wasn't expected for our site to go down

I'll see what I can do to fix this before 1.7.3 is released

Thank you very much. For now I've disabled the whole SVN thing just in case.