Page with status macro load forever or time out after upgrade to Confluence 5.8.5

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Problem

You have a page that have a huge number of status macro, and it take long time to load and occasionally, it will timed-out

The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log

1 2 -- referer: https://localhost:8090/pages/editpage.action?pageId=50464618 | url: /display/UFS/page+name | userName:admin | action: viewpage | page: 50464618 2015-07-02 10:41:45,350 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-8] [sf.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter] logExceptions Communications link failure

Diagnosis

Environment

ℹ️ Environment is not a factor for this issue:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Java Runtime Environment Operating System Windows 7 6.1 Application Server Apache Tomcat/8.0.23 Servlet Version 3.1 Java Version 1.8.0_45 Java Vendor Oracle Corporation Java Runtime Arguments -Dcatalina.home=C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence -Dcatalina.base=C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence -Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\endorsed -Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\temp -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file=C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\conf\logging.properties exit -Xms3072m -Xmx3072m Database Information Database name MySQL Database version 5.5.34 Database Dialect com.atlassian.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect Database Driver Name com.mysql.jdbc.Driver Database Driver Version mysql-connector-java-5.1.28 ( Revision: alexander.soklakov@oracle.com-20131125092425-yvejy3xvci77ru3k )

Diagnostic Steps

You have ServiceRocket Scaffolding6.2.3 installed

Workaround

Disable the scaffolding and contact ServiceRocket for detail

Updated on April 8, 2025

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