Quotes widget causing server overload

  • Resolved Mariette

    (@mariettej)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi

    I have recently installed your plugin (to replace Quotes Collection) and have since had repeated server overloads due to huge increases in programme executions (a spike of over 75,000/hour in one case). I have been advised (by SiteGround support) that this is being caused by a high number of admin-ajax.php executions. “There have been more admin-ajax.php executions than index.php, which usually indicates a plugin/theme issue with the site that continuously executes the script more than once per visit”. They have identified this as the cause:

    quotes_select .
    ./quotes-llama/class-quotesllama.php
    ./quotes-llama/quotes-llama.js

    I had added your widget to a sidebar to display random quotes but have now removed it and deactivated the plugin and all seems to be well again.

    Can you advise if this is something you are aware of and if you are planning to resolve the issue?

    many thanks

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  • Plugin Author oooorgle

    (@oooorgle)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Mariette, Yes I am currently working on resolving this.

    I have no beta testers atm. If you would be interested in helping test this, let me know via email @ llama at oooorgle dot com, I’ll keep you updated.

    Plugin Author oooorgle

    (@oooorgle)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Committed 2.1.3. If you are able to test it please let me know how it works out? Thanks.

    Plugin Author oooorgle

    (@oooorgle)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    When you can try it out the update and let me know? It should hopefully address the issues you are having.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter Mariette

    (@mariettej)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    I had deleted the plugin on the affected site (and also had to add a temporary rule to the .htaccess to stop the admin-ajax.php executions which didn’t seem to stop on deactivation). However, I have now reinstalled it and updated to the latest version and so far I can’t see any repeat of the issues I was having. I will monitor it and let you know if the problem returns.

    Fo info, I had also installed your plugin on 5 other sites but these did not have the same issue. It is very odd. Can you let me know what the issue was please? Is it possible that not all code related to your plugin were removed on deativation/deletion?

    Many thanks for hopefully finding a fix – apart from that strange overload issue I was really pleased to have found a replacement to the Quotes Collection.

    Plugin Author oooorgle

    (@oooorgle)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    That’s great to hear it’s working again.

    The change is related with separating dead code from the plugin. Instead of loading script and styles on every page, it only loads what is needed. It seems I misplaced the script call within the short-code, when it should have been in the function instead. Basically, any refresh or loading of another quote on a page would duplicate the ajax.

    I was not getting that result myself and yes it’s been all sorts of people saying it works and others saying it doesn’t with it that way. And I’m still not quite sure why but I am sure it’s not supposed to be in the short-code, which seems to make it more consistent with everyone.

    Yes, please let me know if it gives you any further problems.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Mariette

    (@mariettej)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the explanation, and happy to report that all is still well 🙂

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