MAX CPU Usage

Just chiming in so i can get email updates, hoping for a fix.

As time.ly state they have stopped responding to queries on these boards, in favour of their own dedicated boards, I opened a topic on there with a link back here: https://community.time.ly/forum/troubleshooting/general_aa/1964-out-of-memory-issues#post2348

Zero response in 5 days doesn’t exactly make me think the support on there will be any better but it’s worth a try.

Has anyone upgraded to 1.11.2 yet?
Does it improve things?
Any fresh issues?

I am curious as to a solution as well. I have installed the Patch and the robots.txt file fixes. I am using the free version, and have just noted that (source: https://support.time.ly/search/cpu and https://support.time.ly/1-11-2-pro-release-notes/) that the Pro versions 1.11.1 and 1.11.2 report “Improved memory usage”. So the free version does not? Is the fix coming to free version? Do I have to upgrade? Does upgrading in fact even help? Anyone?

As you will see from my thread on the timely forums here: https://community.time.ly/forum/troubleshooting/general_aa/1964-out-of-memory-issues I have given up with them.
I deactivated the event manager and have a temporary events page up.
My site has been functioning beautifully ever since. Not a hint of OOM issues etc.
And zero response to my thread in over a response. Not encouraging.

Been researching this issue for a client who’s using the pro version of this plugin. Whether 1 event or 200 events are displayed in a sidebar, it overloads the CPU and calls the apply_filters() function around 2000 times on each page.

I’m trying to track down by this is happening, as the bottle-neck appears to be entirely in code, and no front-end or SQL performance is affected.

I can’t read all the 64 posts but i can give you some help on this.

With version 1.9 we intoduced hierarchical posts for our custom pust type but an undocumented “feature” of this is that WordPress actually load ALL events on some pages instead of paging. This destroys the site if you have more than 800 events as it requires insane amounts of memory. The fix for this is to install 1.10.9 as said here https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/please-read-how-to-install-the-free-standard-version?replies=1

Having said that our plugin is memory/CPU intensive (we are working on 2.0 and we will fix this) one way to speed up things is to use a cache plugin. We are compatible with W3 Total Cache as of version 1.10.9 standard not sure about the 1.10.4 version hosted on wordpress.

Thanks for your quick reply Nicola – that makes sense to me because whatever is happening, the number of php seem almost exponential with the number of events, and yet the DB load remains quite manageable.

I had pages that pulled 500 event objects and that was a real problem, when i reduced the number of objects to 50 then it was fine.

So the link you sent is for the free standard version, what about the pro version?

Cheers,
Luyen

You can download the pro version from our website too but don’t think of it as more performing. It has lot’s of new features and you get pro support ( which is usually in one day ) but it’s not faster than 1.10.9 standard. Please do a backup if you upgrade to pro as db structure differs. If you don’t need the extra features standard is a good solution.