Transients Overload – Choking site

  • Resolved Endlyss

    (@akel-res)


    3 months ago

    Was recently troubleshooting an incredibly bogged down site (as in 45-60 second load times, and 50/50 shot on whether or not it led to a bad gateway error)

    After opening the transients manager to see if there was anything stacking up causing it…

    62,000 transients??? and 99.99% of them started with “wpr_custom_guest_token”. And that was within a mere 24hrs that that stacked up, because I had deleted all transients the night before while troubleshooting something else.

    After some digging, realized it’s coming from Royal Elementor Addons.

    What’s this transient for, and how do I stop it from piling up? It’s bad enough at the moment that if I leave the site unattended for a few hours, without constantly clearing transients, it goes back to choking on itself. Reaches the 50,000-60,000 range within 24hrs.

    Is there a way to fully disable it? Or at least manage it so that it stops killing the website? Tried writing my own script to have a scheduled action that dumps them once or twice an hour, but it was flatout ignoring my code.

    Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide! ??

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  • Thread Starter Endlyss

    (@akel-res)

    Update:

    I managed to get my code working, to auto-clean them. Cron job that looks specifically for wpr_custom_guest_token and wipes them periodically (regardless of expiration). So the site is at least back to stable now.

    However, this was of course a hacky solution, and I’m concerned that there may be unforeseen consequences of just blanket deleting all instances of this transient multiple times an hour (even though these transients have a lifespan of 2hrs)…but it was the only way to stop the site from constantly choking on itself, or setting me up in a position where I’d have to log in every few hours to clear them through the holidays.

    So still curious of what this transient is for, and if there are any consequences to me “disabling” it the way I did above.

    Plugin Contributor George

    (@rubeushagrid13)

    Hi again,

    This transient is used to secure some actions of form builder, we’ll refine code to prevent piling up transients and include it in the next update very soon.

    Thanks for being with us.

    Kind regards,
    George

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