cache grows out of control

  • Resolved apessoa

    (@apessoa)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hello

    System config
    quad-core high ram SSD VPS
    WP 4.5.2
    wp super cache 1.4.8
    memcached IYF 2.0
    AIO Event Calendar 2.5.2
    AIO EC Extended views 1.2.0
    Akisment 3.1.11

    I have a few VPS’s with sites the config above or similar.

    For a few weeks now, all the sites that use All-In-Ove Event Calendar have the same problem:
    cache suddenly grows uncontrollably, creating tens of thousands of *.css.css files inside the “/plugin/…/cache” folder and hundreds of subfolders inside the “/twig” subfolder.
    It happends suddenly and files keep being created, several per second, until the disk is over quota and the server crashes.

    It’s not related to user navigating the calendar pages (it also happends in sites with very low traffic), nor (as far as I was able to see) to bots crawling such pages. Apache access log and error log do not show any errors related specificcally to AIOEC.

    I’ve tried disabling cache in the plugin (both css and js), and also manually deleting the files, making “/plugin/…/cache” unwritable, and even deleting the folder and subfolders alltoghether

    To no avail.

    Folders are recreated after a while and, although the sites work correctly for some time, at some point in time something happends and the cache starts growing uncontrollably and in one or two hours I get 20 or 30 GB of cache thus crashing the servers for disk over quota.

    The only solution was to disable the plugin in some of the sites.
    Any help is appreciated, I’m trying to solve this before moving alltogether to another plugin.

    Thanks in advance
    Alex

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/

    [Moderator Note: No bumping, thank you.]

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  • Thread Starter apessoa

    (@apessoa)

    Three weeks and no replies.
    And in the plugin site support forum it’s stated that support has moved here.
    I think it clearly states the level of support.

    anyway, in case someone has a similar problem, the issue is that when the calendar pages are indexed by any robot, they start creating these thousands of cached css files (*parsed.css) in the /plugin/all-in-one…/cache/ and a lot of folders in the twig subfolder.

    in some cases you can have a workaroud using robots.txt, by adding the following lines (or the equivalent in any other language you use aiec):

    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~posterboard/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~agenda/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~oneday/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~month/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~week/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~stream/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~undefined/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~http:/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~default/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~poster/
    Disallow: /participe/calendario-de-eventos/action~*/
    Disallow: /*controller=ai1ec_exporter_controller*
    Disallow: /*/action~*/

    But, on multisite installs, with several different permalinks for the calendars, errors still occur.
    And it’s pretty annoying to have the server locked for disk overusage, and having to manually delete the files – over and over again.

    Ended up disabling the plugin and using another calendar plugin, that does not have these errors.

    Too bad, really liked this one

    What calendar did you go with?

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