Title: [Plugin: File Gallery] Bug overloading the server Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [Plugin: File Gallery] Bug overloading the server * [dan.stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstefan/) * (@danstefan) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-file-gallery-bug-overloading-the-server/) * Recently I came upon a problem with File Gallery and a large number of media files(about 10k). Basically whenever the plugin would load on the post list page, it would go around and start reading all the tags from all the attachments and using 100% of everything from the server for quite a while. * As a fix, I changed the code on line 582 from main.php to * `if(!is_null($_POST['post_id'])) include_once("main-form.php");` * This prevents the main form loading and it does not attempt to read data unless it’s on a post edit page. * So far the fix stopped all our performance problems with no other visible consequences. Anyone have an idea on why including the main-form.php on all admin pages is default? * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/file-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/file-gallery/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [Aesqe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aesqe/) * (@aesqe) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-file-gallery-bug-overloading-the-server/#post-2574555) * [@dan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dan/).stefan: “main-form.php” is included** only** via ajax in the File Gallery metabox, which is displayed only on the post edit page. * How did you determine that this was “main-form.php”‘s fault? * Plugin Author [Aesqe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aesqe/) * (@aesqe) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-file-gallery-bug-overloading-the-server/#post-2574557) * In case you meant the media listing page, then “file_gallery_media_custom_column” function found in “file-gallery.php” could be causing the problem, because it reads media tags for each attachment on the page. But unless you’re listing all 10k attachments on a single page, I don’t see how that would cause any server overload. * You can turn off displaying of media tags on the media listing page by going to media options and unchecking the “Display media tags for attachments in media library?” checkbox (section “Edit screens options”). * Thread Starter [dan.stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstefan/) * (@danstefan) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-file-gallery-bug-overloading-the-server/#post-2574558) * Actually the code for it is ran on the post listing pages too. You call the file_gallery_load action every time you call file_gallery.init(). Inside that action, you specifically call a require_once(‘main-form.php’). AFAIK the form is displayed only on the edit pages, however the ajax call is done on the admin post listings too since file-gallery.js is included on those pages. * I was a wrong above in saying it’s included on all pages, it’s just included on post listing/editing screens, but while running on the post listing pages it overloads the server with requests(in the case of large media libraries) * Thread Starter [dan.stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstefan/) * (@danstefan) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-file-gallery-bug-overloading-the-server/#post-2574559) * @Aesque’s second post: No that was not the case, nor the problem. It happened on the edit.php page inside the admin. This is a bug, I removed everything other plugin from the server and it still used 100% cpu for about 4-5 minutes(it was just a development server, but my production server has a lot more images). * Plugin Author [Aesqe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aesqe/) * (@aesqe) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-file-gallery-bug-overloading-the-server/#post-2574590) * oh god… *facepalm* * I really appreciate these moments when I feel like a complete idiot 😐 * **@dan-stefan:** thank you so much for pointing this out. File Gallery was initially present only on single post editing screens, but then I added a few features here and there which required some javascript, and, without much thinking (obviously), I included the whole File Gallery js file – without checking which page is currently active and what features are actually needed. * I’ll fix it as soon as I get home, thank you once again. * Thread Starter [dan.stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstefan/) * (@danstefan) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-file-gallery-bug-overloading-the-server/#post-2574593) * Great! I’m mostly glad it was not a conflict with other plugins, I was quite stumped to see such high cpu usages at first with no aparent reason(my first possible suspect was thumbnail regeneration, but that worked as expected). * Basically including the whole js file is no problem in my oppinion, as long as it doesn’t try to start something too big, anyways glad I could help. Maybe I get time further on and I can also help with this plugin since it’s quite awesome( great job btw). * Plugin Author [Aesqe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aesqe/) * (@aesqe) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-file-gallery-bug-overloading-the-server/#post-2574614) * I’ve fixed this in v1.7.4.1, should be fine now. Please try it out when you can. * And thanks for the nice comments 🙂 If you have any further suggestions for improvement or patches, etc., please do post them here. 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