Title: wp-cron.php is hanging
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wp-cron.php is hanging

 *  [sublevel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sublevel/)
 * (@sublevel)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cronphp-is-hanging/)
 * im using 2.31
 * recently i got a lot of server 500 errors
 * my support from my host looked into it and told me it was the wp-cron.php that
   was hanging
 * this is from my error log
    [Fri Dec 14 14:52:05 2007] [error] [client 202.213.200.170]
   Premature end of script headers: /home/world/public_html/index.php [Fri Dec 14
   14:51:59 2007] [error] [client 202.213.200.170] Premature end of script headers:/
   home/world/public_html/index.php
 * and this from the server
    world 15194 0.0 0.4 27480 17140 ? SN 14:42 0:00 /usr/
   bin/php wp-cron.php world 14683 0.0 0.4 27592 17176 ? SN 14:43 0:00 /usr/bin/
   php wp-cron.php world 31820 0.0 0.4 27464 17124 ? SN 14:44 0:00 /usr/bin/php 
   wp-cron.php world 13062 0.1 0.4 27416 17056 ? SN 14:47 0:00 /usr/bin/php wp-cron.
   php world 29944 0.1 0.4 27416 17072 ? SN 14:47 0:00 /usr/bin/php wp-cron.php 
   world 19953 0.1 0.4 27416 17048 ? SN 14:48 0:00 /usr/bin/php wp-cron.php world
   9340 0.1 0.4 27416 17052 ? SN 14:48 0:00 /usr/bin/php wp-cron.php world 10028
   0.1 0.4 27416 17016 ? SN 14:49 0:00 /usr/bin/php wp-cron.php
 * notice the time twice in one minute for a cron?
 * Please someone help
    thank you

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 *  [njaneardude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/njaneardude/)
 * (@njaneardude)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cronphp-is-hanging/#post-667421)
 * Ever solve this one, might be my problem.
 * Thx

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