Page Builder causes my server to max out

  • Resolved danniee

    (@danniee)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I’ve been trying to figure out what is causing my server’s resources to max out (CPU and physical memory) and come to the conclusion that partly this is due to the page builder plugin.

    Whenever I got to edit one of my posts and immediately check the resources, they will max out. My host also checked and could confirm that it’s getting a lot of calls from my own IP. I don’t understand why but https://www.xx.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php also gets a lot of hits when this happens.

    Is Page Builder this demanding on the server resources that when editing it will cause the server to temporarily max out? I don’t have some cheap host either. It’s high quality and I don’t otherwise have any issues.

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  • Plugin Contributor alexgso

    (@alexgso)

    Hi Danniee,

    I’m sorry to hear you’re facing performance issues. Page Builder does one request when opening a Page Builder powered page in the editor (or one per SiteOrigin Layout Block) but it’s quite a simple request so it shouldn’t have a notable impact on performance. In general, A large number of requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php and/or wp-json/wp/ isn’t unusual as WordPress will also have a minimum of two requests on load and it’ll typically make one request per block.

    As with all Ajax in WordPress if something is set up to run early that’s quite demanding it can cause major performance impacts for all Ajax requests. You mentioned that you partly linked it to Page Builder so I suspect you may have a plugin installed that’s running a large amount of code too early so its code is triggered for all Ajax when it should otherwise not be triggered at all. That can result in an otherwise simple request being significant performance impact and would explain the results you’re getting.

    Do you get the same performance results when you temporarily disable all non-SiteOrigin plugins and switch to a default theme?

    Kind regards,
    Alex

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