Title: High Serverload after Update
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# High Serverload after Update

 *  [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/)
 * Hi Volks,
    does beside of me somebody else has that problem? I use for ~6 WordPress
   Installs a Dedicated Server Solution from Hostgator and i never had problems 
   with it. They were up and running fine. Yesterday i made the Update from 3.5 
   to 3.5.1 because i do normally keep everything up to date.
 * But here i get now an extreme high server load. It seems to have started ~5-6
   hours after i made the updates. Somehow on the server are now lots of processes
   started what can’t be ended the right way and get stuck.
    I don’t know if you
   guy tells this something: Load Averages: 19.28 35.18 38.12 with peaks up to 50.
   XX <– These Values before were more like Load Averages: 0.28 0.18 0.12 — So really
   small, because there were never THAT much traffic on the sites.
 * Hostgator told me that it wouldn’t be a server misconfiguration, bad for me, 
   i have to believe them, because i know nearly nothing about it.
 * Maybe someone else has an idea how to fix that, because at the moment the Websites
   are nearly unable to reach.
 * Kind regards

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 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405730)
 * 1st Step: I tried to use W3 Total Cache, this one just spammed me Red Header 
   messages that a lot of things wouldn’t be function. Kicked it and swiched to “
   Quick Cache” Server Load was slightly lowered. Load Averages around: 12.28 25.18
   25.12 — Still much too high. Sites could be opened already, but with long load
   times.
 * 2nd Step: I have made an Downgrade to an modified 3.5 (had the post.php changed
   that the scheduled postings are running normally) + Quick Cache still running:
   Load Averages down to: 0.07 0.15 0.88
 * Sites are again running really smooth as they did before.
 * I had already a lot (10-12 Plugins running) and i checked only if there were 
   a change in the Load averages yesterday by turning everything off. but that didn’t
   help.
 * And now after the downgrade back to 3.5 and it is running seems to me as a sign
   that the 3.5.1 HAS a problem somehow. Where, i can’t tell.
 *  [andy2grant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andy2grant/)
 * (@andy2grant)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405772)
 * no wordpress does not has problem . the high process are due to caching plugins.
   they usually take a lot when creating a cache and during that time site load 
   times generally go very high . You can do one thing first deactivate all cache
   plugins and then upgrade it will work as smooth as before and then manually activate
   them one by one after few time for them to refresh the new cache . Hope you got
 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405773)
 * Uhm, i didn’t had a Caching Plugin before at all!
 * I only installed it AFTER Hostgatr told me that this could help to get the Serverload
   again back to normal.
 * And i did deactivate ALL Plugins in ALL WordPress Installs after i made a hard
   reset of the server. And i did a second hard reset afterwards.
    The server load
   climbed in minutes back to max with dozens of [php] <defunct> processes and two
   to three other really huge ones.
 * I activated ALL Plugins + the new Baching Plugin, took my old 3.5 WP, renamed
   the wp-config.php to _wp-config.php and uploaded the whole plain WP over the 
   old one (3.5 OVER 3.5.1) – I made a new Hardreset and till now the server is 
   completely fine.
 * So you really want to say it has nothing to do with 3.5.1?
    Sorry, but i mist
   disagree.
 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405774)
 * Timeline without Timestamps 😉
    1. WP Update from 3.5 to 3.5.1 2. Serverload 
   gets gigantic! 3. Deactivated ALL Plugins 4. Went to hostgator, tried to kill
   processes, just popped up again. Did two Forceful Restarts. Nothing Changed. 
   Still gigantic Serverload. 5. Hostgator checked the Server, everything seemed
   to be fine, sugestion to get an Cache Plugin. 6. Cache Plugin uploaded. Nothing
   changed. Forceful reset after an hour. Still gigantiv load. 7. WP Downgrade from
   3.5.1 to 3.5 by just uploading the original install Data from the old WP 3.5 
   with a modified post.php (to get Scheduled Postings back to work) 8. Forceful
   Serverreset. 9. Till now, Serverload back to normal!
 *  [andy2grant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andy2grant/)
 * (@andy2grant)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405775)
 * might be ….i suggested only that could have happened .
 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405785)
 * Okay, there seems to be more with it than i tought. The Serverload is back up
   on very high and i am back at the Support Chat of Hostgator. *sigh*
 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405882)
 * So, I transfered the Domain to an other Server and the Domain is running totally
   fine! (By the way. Both Servers are running now fine o.O
 * But yes, the Domain spams really much error Messages after i had activated the
   debug in the wp-config.php
 * Just in less than One SECOND there were 52 Messages and 25 Seconds later came
   the next bunch of 30 Messages. So the debug_log.txt gets filled like hell. But
   mostly with messages i don’t even get what he wants from me. I checked the Template,
   there is none of the functions to found:
 *     ```
       [28-Jan-2013 01:54:27] PHP Notice:  register_sidebar_widget ist seit Version 2.8 <strong>veraltet</strong>! Benutze stattdessen wp_register_sidebar_widget(). in /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.COM/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2824
       [28-Jan-2013 01:54:27] PHP Notice:  js_escape ist seit Version 2.8 <strong>veraltet</strong>! Benutze stattdessen esc_js(). in /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.COM/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2824
       [28-Jan-2013 01:54:27] PHP Notice:  __ngettext ist seit Version 2.8 <strong>veraltet</strong>! Benutze stattdessen _n(). in /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.COM/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2824
       [28-Jan-2013 01:54:27] PHP Notice:  clean_url ist seit Version 3.0 <strong>veraltet</strong>! Benutze stattdessen esc_url(). in /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.COM/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2824
       ```
   
 * Example the Sidebar Widget, it is called with:
    `<div id="rightnav"><?php include(
   TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php'); ?></div>` Sorry for having the Error messages
   in German, but the whole Blog is German and so also the WP on it.
 * But i also get a strange message that my SQL has errors
    `[28-Jan-2013 01:54:
   27] WordPress-Datenbank-Fehler You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
   manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to 
   use near '' at line 1 für Abfrage SELECT rating_username, rating_rating, rating_ip
   FROM wp_ratings WHERE rating_postid = von require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('
   wp-includes/template-loader.php'), include('/themes/TEMPLATENAME/index.php'),
   the_post, WP_Query->the_post, do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, get_comment_authors_ratings`
 * And last but not least also two plugins are spamming:
 *     ```
       [28-Jan-2013 01:54:27] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  rate in /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.COM/wp-content/plugins/postratings-custom/postratings-custom.php on line 559
       [28-Jan-2013 01:54:27] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  pid in /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.COM/wp-content/plugins/postratings-custom/postratings-custom.php on line 560
       [28-Jan-2013 01:54:27] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  ws_plugin__qcache_menu_pages_css in /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.COM/wp-content/plugins/quick-cache/includes/classes/admin-css-js.inc.php on line 20
       [28-Jan-2013 01:54:27] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  ws_plugin__qcache_menu_pages_js in /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.COM/wp-content/plugins/quick-cache/includes/classes/admin-css-js.inc.php on line 28
       ```
   
 * The rest is just double, tripple and unlimited more of the same Text over and
   over.
    The error_log doesn’t look that much different. Could someone explain 
   me some of that strange language 😉 .. i have tried to understand the most of
   it, mut thats a part.. especially the sql part what i totally do not understand.
 * Kind Regards
 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405913)
 * From the Moment i made the last posting till now the debug.log got its size increased
   to 128.848.545 Bytes around 122MB thats … wow. Really nobody has any idea how
   to get some of the messages gone?
 * But it SEEMS that this is just the debug.log what writes here everything down.
   There is no error_log to find anymore. Would that mean that it is just the debugging
   of WordPress that is that sensitive?
 * Greetings
 *  [jgarcia439](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgarcia439/)
 * (@jgarcia439)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405947)
 * Have you modified or edited the code of wordpress files anywhere ? You can do
   these things –
    1) Optimise your database and repair any errors. 2) validate 
   your website’s code using validator on w3.org
 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405948)
 * Core files were nearly never touched. Once i did modify the wp-includes/post.
   php to get the scheduled postings back to work.
    I did modify the template, but
   mainly just simple translations. I will check that again, maybe i find somethings
   to do better, especially validating, i belive my site is everything, but not 
   calid ^-^ But the biggest question and a thing what i totally don’t know…. How
   to optimize a Database?
 *  [robertdean09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertdean09/)
 * (@robertdean09)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405949)
 * at your server backend or cpanel you have a phpmyadmin . Open it then you will
   see there optimize tables when you select a database . Secondly you can use a
   plugin optimize db . Be sure to backup b4 installing plugin or optimizing database
 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405950)
 * So it is an just automatic process, okay.
    I was just scared to do any kind of
   manual work in the DB. DB Backups are done automatically every 15 Days with MySQLDumper.
 * And i do nearly nothing without a live backup and additional the second last 
   backup, just in case 🙂 .. Kind of too much in stake to mess with things what
   are very hard to get them back to work again when something IS damaged.
 * Thank you and so i’ll do as said.
 * Out of curiosity. How SQL Error happen? I did never touch SQL DB’s besides of
   doing backups.
 *  [robertdean09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertdean09/)
 * (@robertdean09)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405951)
 * its good that you never touched it . If its gone your site is gone . Have backup
   and dont mess with other things phpmyadmin without knowing them .
    I too dont
   know all stuff there 🙂
 *  [robertdean09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertdean09/)
 * (@robertdean09)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405952)
 * its good that you never touched it . If its gone your site is gone . Have backup
   and dont mess with other things phpmyadmin without knowing them .
    I too dont
   know all stuff there 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [caylean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caylean/)
 * (@caylean)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/high-serverload-after-update/#post-3405953)
 * Would something like this “WP Database Optimizer” also does the Job?
 * I just was in the PHPMyAdmin and searched around and i could only find something
   to optimize when i selected a specific Table/Subtable or how it should be called,
   going to “Operation” and then at “Table maintenance” was the button “Optimize
   table” That was So damn fast done, that i had the feeling that nothing was done
   at all, but i did got the message “Your SQL query has been executed successfully”
   
   Is it meant to be like that?
 * Uhm, i just have checked the Website with [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/)
   and it said that i have exactly 1 Error:
    `<li><g:plusone></g:plusone></li>` 
   And before i made the test i was 100% sure that the tool would say that there
   are TONS of problems -.- I should check also other validators. Doctype: XHTML
   1.0 Transitional — There should definately more than one error o.O.. Whatever
   I add manually to the code is PLAIN html like `<center></center> <font color="#
   fff"></font>` and other stuff like that.

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