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1. Milan Petrovic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Plugin is causing chaos with the cron jobs. I have a custom cron that does a lot of database related work, and if W3TC plugin is active, that causes total mess. I even tried disabling database and object caching, but even if that is disabled, all SQL queries go through W3TV database object. Is there a way to fully disable W3TC for cron jobs or other things?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

2. john-michael
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey Milan,

   Love the GDSR plugin btw. Can't wait for 2.0!

   You'll want to put,
   define('DOING_CRON', true);
   at the beginning of any cron script you run. I had a tough time finding this. Must be one of those, "we'll leave it out so people pay for support" type of things. Hey, you get what you pay for!

   ;)

3. Milan Petrovic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I thought that WP does that for any cron job. Thanks, I will try this.

   GDSR 2.0 will be great, I am having fun making it, and that says a lot.

4. Frederick Townes
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Milan, did @john-michael's suggestion work for you?

5. Milan Petrovic
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Nope. As longs as the database and object cache are active cron is not running as it should. It's not starting in set time, and all jobs still use W3 database object.

6. M
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have issues with the crons as well. I've installed a plugin (crontrol) to see what they are doing and I see these two lines:
   w3_pgcache_prime [] 11/29/10 12:08:40 (1 minute 49 seconds) 1800 (30 minutes)
   w3_pgcache_prime [470] 11/29/10 12:29:44 (22 minutes 53 seconds) Non-repeating

   Not sure why there are two crons for the same operation, out of which one is non-repeating. Also, this morning the argument for the second entry was 340. What does that mean?

   Usually, I wouldn't ask about crons, but this time they are interfering with the post publishing in the admin (it gets really slow or even stuck).
   I'm on a shared server at HG, if that helps.

   Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.

7. Chris Olbekson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @Milan,

   Try un checking all the settings for auto prime cache and increase the garbage collection intervals.

   I have also solved cron problems by manually deleting the content from cron entry in the wp_options table which will force WordPress rebuild it.

8. Frederick Townes
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Good tips @c3mdigital!

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