Title: Preload caching too often Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # Preload caching too often * [jardeath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jardeath/) * (@jardeath) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/) * Hi, I’ve set preloading to run every 10080 minutes (1 week), however it seems to be running every 30 minutes or so? * I was tailing the logs and saw localhost start hitting all the pages as per a normal preload, checked the preload tab and saw: * Full refresh of cache in 0 hours 11 minutes and 59 seconds. * Ok… Once this completed, it started preloading again, and then it showed: * Full refresh of cache in 0 hours 31 minutes and 39 seconds. * Not sure what is going on, as I have set it to 10080 minutes. * If I click the update settings button to reapply it again, it does say at the top scheduled for 10080 minutes, however at the bottom it still has the ~30 mins message. * Why does the full refresh take place far before the 1 week time set? Is 1 week too high and causing problems? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [jardeath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jardeath/) * (@jardeath) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/#post-6109087) * Still happening, any ideas? * For 4 or 5 days it was fine, now in the last hour it’s done a full preload about 4 times. One just finished and it says: * Full refresh of cache in 0 hours 30 minutes and 12 seconds. * Despite it being set to 10080 minutes it seems to start much sooner, I still get emails saying preload has completed and the next will be in 10080 however when I check the preload tab the time to next preload is much sooner. I am not making any changes at all to anything to cause a recache. * After the above ~30 mins preload started again, and the countdown changed to “ Full refresh of cache in 0 hours 3 minutes and 33 seconds.” then after that time was up preload kicked off again and showed “Full refresh of cache in 0 hours 3 minutes and 50 seconds.”. * Now after that it’s “Full refresh of cache in 22 hours 52 minutes and 11 seconds.”, better than every 3-30 mins but still not the specified 10080 mins. * [ecdltf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecdltf/) * (@ecdltf) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/#post-6109093) * Thanks for posting this. I’ve spent some time trying to understand the logic behind the interval timing, too. But it continues to be a mystery 😉 * [ecdltf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecdltf/) * (@ecdltf) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/#post-6109097) * Currently I’m receiving preload messages, and I’ve set the preload to “0” a couple of hours ago ;-). * Thread Starter [jardeath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jardeath/) * (@jardeath) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/#post-6109100) * I suppose that may be an option, at 0 it wouldn’t auto preload and would just keep the preloaded cache. * I assume that having the setting enabled to do the preload if you edit a post or post something new would be enough to trigger it when required. * Edit: Nope it did not start a preload, it did delete the cache files though as the setting stated but it doesn’t start generating them again, so 0 might not be an option for me. * Is setting to preload every 7 days perhaps too long or something and what causes this problem? * [uksw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uksw/) * (@uksw) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/#post-6109141) * I’m also seeing the same. * I’ve set the ‘Refresh preloaded cache files every’ to 1440 minutes and yet it refreshes every 50 minutes or so. * Has anybody tried to uninstall/reinstall the plugin? * [uksw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uksw/) * (@uksw) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/#post-6109142) * I’ve managed to get it working, here’s how: * Change ‘Use mod_rewrite to serve cache files. (Recommended)’ to ‘Use PHP to serve cache files.’ * Edit your .htaccess file and remove the WPSuperCache entry: # BEGIN WPSuperCache delete everything # END WPSuperCache * Go back to WP Super Cache Settings and reconfigure/enable your Preload settings and click on ‘Preload Cache Now’. * It should then work correctly, it did for me 🙂 * I also enabled the ‘Use mod_rewrite to serve cache files. (Recommended)’ again and it’s still okay. My guess is that there was something wrong with the .htaccess configuration. * Thread Starter [jardeath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jardeath/) * (@jardeath) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/#post-6109143) * Interesting, I don’t have a .htaccess as I’m using Nginx, I’ve basically transferred the configuration into my Nginx configuration though. * This is still a problem I have, over the weekend I get around 10 instances of preloading as previously outlined before it will eventually be fine for a few days, but still not the full week specified. * [aroengbinang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aroengbinang/) * (@aroengbinang) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-caching-too-often/#post-6109150) * Same problem. Preload started again just a few minutes after finishing scheduled preload process. Probably it was because I changed preload schedule and hit “ preload cache now”, but the original schedule was still there and executed. * Tried to resolve it by changing the preload setting to 0, updated, and kept that way until more than 2 days (2880 minutes, my scheduled preload settting). It’s similar to “flushing period”. * Then I set preload schedule again to run at 2880 minutes, updated, without hitting“ preload cache now”. Two days later preload process started as scheduled, and the problem disappeared. 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