Title: [Plugin: PHPFreeChat] Plugin uses more resources than stand alone?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: PHPFreeChat] Plugin uses more resources than stand alone?

 *  Resolved [haraldr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haraldr/)
 * (@haraldr)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpfreechat-plugin-uses-more-resources-than-stand-alone/)
 * Is it possible that the plugin version requires a lot more resources than a stand
   alone install, because of e.g. wordpress overhead? I was using the stand alone
   script on a shared webserver without problems, but with the plugin version it
   had a load>30 (percentage i assume) and got disabled by the hosting company. 
   The chat was laggy too, but i guess that was because of the high load on the 
   server. There were not many users in the chat, 15-20.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpfreechat/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpfreechat/)

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 *  [Frumph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frumph/)
 * (@frumph)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpfreechat-plugin-uses-more-resources-than-stand-alone/#post-1228069)
 * Were you using the text container or the mysql container? text container will
   have quite a large memory overhead.
 * Did you have the logging turned off? .. logging too increases overhead.
 *  Thread Starter [haraldr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haraldr/)
 * (@haraldr)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpfreechat-plugin-uses-more-resources-than-stand-alone/#post-1228097)
 * Yes, seems to work a lot better with the mysql container, thanks for the tip.
   I tried to turn off logging too, but it doesn’t seem to save the setting, the
   check box is not ticked after saving. Bug?
 *  [Frumph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frumph/)
 * (@frumph)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpfreechat-plugin-uses-more-resources-than-stand-alone/#post-1228136)
 * Yeah very well could be, i’ll look at it when I wake up tomorrow thanks for checking
   that stuff out haraldr
 *  [Frumph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frumph/)
 * (@frumph)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-phpfreechat-plugin-uses-more-resources-than-stand-alone/#post-1228152)
 * It appears that 0.2.0 had a problem creating the table on fresh installs. Completely
   my bad. I now have it defaulting as using the mysql container and have it not
   error out on creation of the database since it already exists.
 * – Phil

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