WordPress Creating Heavy System Loads

  • Hi all,

    I received several emails form my hosting company, hostgator, that wordpress is creating too much load on their servers. I disabled all the plugins and it is still the same.

    They sent me this error file below. mysql queries that never complete or die off:

    Can you please advice what to do. I need to sort this out in the next 48 hours or they will ban my domain onlinehealthadvice.com from their hosting. I tried different themes but they tld me it didn’t change anything.

    Thank you for your help.

    root@banned [~]# mysqladmin pr | grep onlinehe
    | 480 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 2279
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    | 1497 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1982
    | |
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    | 1563 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1977
    | |
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    | 2422 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1732
    | |
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    | 2667 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1670
    | |
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    | 2922 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1604
    | |
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    | 3065 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1577
    | |
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    | 3834 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1413
    | |
    |
    | 4718 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1188
    | |
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    | 4846 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1132
    | |
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    | 4973 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1123
    | |
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    | 4974 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1123
    | |
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    | 5199 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1068
    | |
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    | 5204 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1071
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    | 5206 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1071
    | |
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    | 5610 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 979
    | |
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    | 5805 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 932
    | |
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    | 5956 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 895
    | |
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    | 6495 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 768
    | |
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    | 6911 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 674
    | |
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    | 7299 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 588
    | |
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    | 7786 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 465
    | |
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    | 8044 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 417
    | |
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    | 8637 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 289
    | |
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    | 8669 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 282
    | |
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    | 8700 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 275
    | |
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    | 8866 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 232
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    | 9119 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 172
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    | 9123 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 171
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    | 9438 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 98
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    | 9878 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 1
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    | 9880 | onlinehe_wrdp1 | localhost | onlinehe_wrdp1 | Sleep | 0
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  • I’ve posted to the hackers list for advice.
    What plugins did you have activated ?
    Did the host give you any other details at all apart from the above ?

    Podz, the host can probably say very little apart from which queries still ‘hang’. As for the reason, it’s hard to tell as you can’t decipher what is actually running. It doesn’t seem like the processes devour any resources (they fall under the ‘sleep’ category). Nontheless, I wonder what spawns this. It might need some experimentation on the OP’s side — seeing what actions trigger an instantiation of such a process (this might require root access).

    A clean install might be worthwhile although I doubt the OP has changed anything in terms of code. Could it be something in the database that mySQL or WordPress cannot handle gracefully? I doubt it.

    I have/had same problems with wordpress creating heavy loads. Not sure if this matches the above, but maybe it helps if i share my expirience with this..

    Every time i posted an entry it took long to load… the post was saved, but shortly after the server went down or my page gone incredible slow. One time it was so heavy that the whole server crashed. My hoster told me that the file which is eating all system-RAM is “post.php” in the wp-admin folder.

    I think it has something to do with the trackback attempts. Maybe it trys to ping every https:// link and gets no response or something.. then loops till it is dead. I doubt it, because it is known that pingin slows down posting.. in my case it crashes the server (maybe).

    After i had disabled everything regarding pingin and trackback i could use my blog again. i have no plugins modifying something in my adminarea, hacks editing admin files or anything like it. it must be something in the post.php

    Btw.. this issue is out of the box. i tried clean installs, disabled plugins one by one etc.. no luck.

    Will an unstable version provide a solution until a stable one is released?

    https://www.ads-software.com/download/nightly-builds/

    There was/is a big pinging mechanisms overhail these days…

    Sleeping connections have nothing to do with load, at all.

    If you don’t like them, turn your mysql client timeout lower in your my.cnf.

    Matt pretty much nailed what I was going to say. Does your host really know what is going on? Are they concerned at the ammount of dead process it generates or is there something else they claim to be loading down their servers. I suggest they figure out what they’re talking about or send you the correct error logs. If this is the best they can do, maybe its time for a more knowledgable host.

    In these days my hosting was expiriencing a large load on the mySQL server by few users that saturated it, in his forum wordpress-it.it (Support and info in italian about WP) was signed as a site that do a lot of trafic and a lot of queries (WP e bbpress) in a so clean way that they aimed to us as an example of a tracciated site but a polite one. We still use 1.5.2 and few plugins on the production site. So I suppose that the problems is the hosting service that doesn’t know what they are doing, maybe havng trouble with theyr server and pointing the finger to ther first stupid thing they got in they logs.

    If WP have had hat problem this forum should have been flooded with request for same problem.

    Dreamhost has recently been sending a few notes to folks using too much CPU time (>30 cpu-minutes per day, I think) based on WP sites. So this isn’t quite so isolated. But we haven’t a clue what the real overhead is, what scripts are taking up time, etc.

    -d

    My wangxiaohu.org got the same problem. I was told by my host provider that index.php was consuming about 50% of CPU for more than 4 hours before it was manually shut down.

    It is WP 2.0.1 running on a Windows server. The plugins it was using are:

    1. Archivist (Bring some old posts back to the front.)
    2. Get Recent Comments
    3. Photopress Plugin
    4. Subscribe me (Allow others to subscribe this blog)
    5. wpLicense (Add Common License notice to this blog)
    6. Lightbox Plugin (JS powered overlay popup)
    7. Jalenack’s Wordspew (AJAX based shout box)
    8. Counterize (hits and other statistics)
    9. LiveJournal Crossposter

    Please help! THANKS!

    Yu

    I found that it is cache.php cause the heave load for my problem mentioned above. See the error below:
    —————————————–
    Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 90 seconds exceeded in c:\websites\wangxiaohu364\wangxiaohu.com\wp-includes\cache.php on line 344
    —————————————–

    Disabling the cache system solved the problem. In wp-config.php:

    define(‘DISABLE_CACHE’, true);

    Ha, I have been noticing that while working in WP my system is hanging and slower than usual..(slow anyway). So If I disable cache that should work?

    Thanks for that – it’s really speeded up my site.

    Mine too. Thank you!

    The cache should only be a problem on ‘broken’ systems, where the cache directory isn’t writeable. Hopefully it’ll default off for the next release…

    If POSTING seems to be hanging, that’s a different issue — remove Pingomatic from your pings list…

    -d

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