Excessive admin-ajax.php executions

  • Resolved evermorepc

    (@evermorepc)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hi all,

    I am having an issue on my website where by we our exceeding the maximum CPU usage.

    I have managed to determine a massive amount is being used via admin-ajax.php executions from a specific IP under the following requests;

    …domain…. /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=shop_order”

    We use Woocommerce but are only a small business so are not processing many orders in total. We do manage/edit/update about 20-30 customer orders in the admin section per day but wouldn’t think that would be excessive.

    Note* I have already tried limiting the heartbeat and cron jobs with no major difference achieved.

    Thank you in advance for any assistance,

    Ian

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  • Thread Starter evermorepc

    (@evermorepc)

    I have tried following this guide https://docs.wp-rocket.me/article/985-how-to-find-which-plugin-calls-admin-ajax-php

    but cannot locate a plugin in this case. the following message is found under “preview” when searching admin-ajax (console inspection)

    1. {status: “fail”, type: “error”, msg: “We couldn’t catch current tasks, please try again later.”}
      1. msg: “We couldn’t catch current tasks, please try again later.”
      2. status: “fail”
      3. type: “error”
    Saif

    (@babylon1999)

    Hello @evermorepc,

    Third-party plugins are often the primary cause of increased usage of admin-ajax.php.

    I suggest you try disabling all plugins except WooCommerce while activating the default Storefront theme.

    If the problem is not present after doing so, then you know there was a plugin conflict. You can enable plugins one by one again to find the culprit.

    If you’re not comfortable doing all of this on the live version of your site, you can create a staging environment using WP-STAGING.

    Let us know how it goes!

    Plugin Support George S.a11n

    (@gsorkpor)

    Hello?@evermorepc,

    We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – we’ll be here if and/or when you are ready to continue.

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