NextGEN Gallery – high load on the server

@f.paulus – The link you provided is not resolving …

– Cais.

Hi Cais,

The problem is that plagin creates high load on server. There is information in the article that on one web site when NextGEN Gallery plagin used (version 2 or higher) the load was:
117 (requests) / 9,643 (time) / 93mb (memory)
when version 1.9.13 used:
32 / 1,117 / 21.92mb

Table wp_option befor cleaning was 800 Mb (contains mainly displayed_galleries_… and _transient_…), after cleaning 1 Mb

Plagin creates requests like
DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name like ‘_transient_%’ OR option_name like ‘displayed_galleries%’

@f.paulus – Have you tried the clear image cache under Gallery > Other Options > Miscellaneous?

This should clear out the database some and going forward the latest version of NextGEN Gallery should maintain a much smaller footprint in the database.

– Cais.

I haven’t, but as I understood plagin generates requests to database everytime. After installing 1.9.13 the load on server is less 100 minutes, but before it was 200-500 min.

@f.paulus – Please let us know what affect clearing the image cache has … even a link to your site would be helpful in some cases to see this “load” ourselves.

– Cais.

Now I use v.1.9.13, because in case of higher version the high load on server observed.
Have you not heard about this problem before?

@f.paulus – To our understanding these issues were taken care of a few releases ago with the most recent release correcting a small over-sight on our part.

Our next major release is expected to have even further improvements but it is still in its internal testing phase.

– Cais.