Title: Posting problems w/ 2.9
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Posting problems w/ 2.9

 *  [bigal-dpng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigal-dpng/)
 * (@bigal-dpng)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/)
 * Don’t know what was done between 2.8.6 and 2.9, but so far, 2.9 has been a headache
   when it comes to posting anything. I have posts scheduled to go up daily which
   aren’t being posted. When I write a new post and hit publish, all it does it 
   act like it’s publishing and never refreshes the page. I just tried to add a 
   new post to my site, and it took almost 10 minutes just to publish it.

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 *  [Pranav Rastogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulgaming/)
 * (@ulgaming)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313763)
 * Thank god someone is there with the same problem! The same thing is happening
   with me and it uses a lot of cpu on the server!
 * When i do something related to updating posts the cpu resources get eaten very
   fast and it creates zombie processes!
 * I see processes of
    [php] <defunct> in CPU usage when ever i try to update/publish
   a post! These processes are eating more than 60% cpu and keep popping up one 
   after another!
 * BTW, I use PHP5.
 *  [Sapphire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sapphire/)
 * (@sapphire)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313764)
 * I haven’t published any new posts since upgrading, but I have been trying to 
   edit a few, and it just SPINS. This has given me 503 errors on one server. But
   I use two different hosts with more or less identical WordPress setups, and they
   are BOTH taking forever. It seems the bigger the database, the longer it takes.
   Unfortunately, my database is big because of posts and comments, not something
   I can reduce the size of.
 * This REALLY sucks.
 *  [vangrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vangrog/)
 * (@vangrog)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313772)
 * I’ve got a real huge database too and I got no problems with WP 2.9. Writing 
   new posts, editing older posts and everything else works smootlhy to me (I checked
   also the resources I’m consuming on my server and it’s just normal). So it seems
   this is not an issue affecting everyone (just in case this info can help you 
   somehow).
 * Cheers
 *  [Pranav Rastogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulgaming/)
 * (@ulgaming)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313774)
 * [@vangrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vangrog/) : What version of php
   do you use?
 *  [vangrog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vangrog/)
 * (@vangrog)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313777)
 * I use PHP 5 and MySQL 5.1
 * Cheers
 *  [Pranav Rastogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulgaming/)
 * (@ulgaming)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313797)
 * After tracing the process I get this:
 * Process 23686 attached – interrupt to quit
    read(3, “.\1\5\”&Records: 5 Duplicat”…,
   16384) = 50 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout) write(3,“
   q\3select ID from 1212_yarpp_r”…, 117) = 117 read(3, “\1\1\1W\2\3def\ranimesho_blog301212″…,
   16384) = 114 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout) write(
   3, “5\3select post_content from 12″…, 57) = 57 read(3, “\1\1\1O\2\3def\ranimesho_blog\
   n1212″…, 16384) = 258 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
   write(3, “3\3select post_title from 1212″…, 55) = 55 read(3, “\1\1\1K\2\3def\
   ranimesho_blog\n1212″…, 16384) = 138 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 1,
   0) = 0 (Timeout) write(3, “\17\3set names utf8”, 19) = 19 read(3, “\7\1\2”, 16384)
   = 11 …
 * and so on!
 *  [mixvio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mixvio/)
 * (@mixvio)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313819)
 * I’m having the same issue. Since updating the blog in general is slow as far 
   as the Dashboard stuff is concerned, and publishing posts takes upwards of ten
   to fifteen minutes.
 *  [danceadvantage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danceadvantage/)
 * (@danceadvantage)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313833)
 * I updated a scheduled post slightly, just to see if I was having the same problem.
   It didn’t take 10-15 minutes but it was longer than usual.
 *  [TideTime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tidetime/)
 * (@tidetime)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313847)
 * I’m having a similar problem. Updating or publishing a post just spins and works
   for a while, maybe 20 seconds, and then brings me to a 404 error. Any suggestions?
 *  [Geetar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geetar/)
 * (@geetar)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1313871)
 * It works fine for me. I downloaded `http.php` from [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/export/11450/trunk/wp-includes/http.php](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/export/11450/trunk/wp-includes/http.php)
   uploaded it to wp-includes and replaced the old `http.php` file.
 * I don’t know if that file has nothing to do with slow posting, I did all the 
   above because i got this error: `Warning: gzuncompress() [function.gzuncompress]:
   data error in /home/...`
 *  [Pranav Rastogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulgaming/)
 * (@ulgaming)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1314059)
 * [@geetar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geetar/) : That didn’t fix the 
   problem. 🙁
 *  [Pranav Rastogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulgaming/)
 * (@ulgaming)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1314060)
 * Culprit found! It was :
 * Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
 * I upgraded it the the newest version which fixes this problem.
 *  [rickandlucia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickandlucia/)
 * (@rickandlucia)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1314071)
 * Since going to 2.9 I can’t post anything. I’ve been screwing with it and can 
   post if I do the following:
 * 1. Put the post in “Pending Review” in the Status
    2. Change to “Published On”
   date to something earlier than the current time.
 * Then it will post. I have no clue how to set up future posts to launch.
 *  Thread Starter [bigal-dpng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigal-dpng/)
 * (@bigal-dpng)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1314184)
 * Seems to be working much better today. Don’t know what the difference is, but
   things are much better. Now if I could only get my other problem I posted on 
   here about fixed, I’d be all set.
 *  [Sapphire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sapphire/)
 * (@sapphire)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-problems-w-29/#post-1314257)
 * I can confirm what ulgaming figured out! My problem suddenly disappeared, too,
   and updating Yet Another Related Posts Plugin was the only change I’d made.

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