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Mine seems to be stable as well but I’m still using Hypercache and no DB-Cache.

Of course I’m mostly offline lately so even if it did go down, I would probably miss it

@whooami: In my case WordPress didn’t behave like this. It simply started spawning runaway php processes. In phpmyadmin I just went to the table and selected “Repair” but I didn’t see any notice of it being corrupted.

@dryords: I’m using 2.7.1 without Supercache which is known to cause problems for Dreamhost.

How can you tell if your wp_options is corrupted?

It’s not the bandwidth that is killing the site though, it’s something breaking wp_options

Ok we seem to march on:

• Platinum SEO pack (which is an updgrade over All in One SEO which has been discontinued AFAIK)
• Google Sitemap
• Feedburner Feedsmith
• WordPress Stats

I think it could be WP Stats at I think it’s the only one of these accessing the DB. Also Sitemaps is one that can grab a lot of RAM to generate the map.

However with both of them active, my site has been working fine now.

No, normal WP interface. It happened in a similar way for me. I would post something and then a bit (or a while) later, site would be down again. I haven’t had it for the last 3 posting though so I’m hopeful.

Which plugins are you currently using? Perhaps we can triangulate

I’m still figuring it out.

What I’ve done since is

• Clean my Wp-options of its RSS (h/r)ash using the plugin clean options
• Further Clean my WP-Options from its old info. Since I’ve been using the same DB since 2006, it had gotten a bit bloated (and still is)
• Deactivated all plugins I use just a bit. I am slowly activating them (1 per week) and waiting to see what happens

I don’t run WP-Supercache, but I know it causes problems if one is on Dreamhost PS. I user Hypercache.

I disabled all plugins, switched to the default theme, and Internal Server error (IEE) occurred after a while again. Argh!

Now rebooted server, disabled all plugins (bar Akismet for spam) and repaired wp_options. Will see IEE happens again

UPDATE: It could be that the server was being brought down by another one of my sites before. Now took down everything except the main site dbzer0.com and waiting…

I think I’ve got the suspect. As soon as I disabled the Intense Debate plugin the problem seems to have gone away.

I am contacting the Devs now

UPDATE: Nope, it lasted for longer this time but eventually site went down again. Looking more

UPDATE2: Deactivated some other plugins with DB calls and enabled Intense Debate again. So far site still up

UPDATE3: Nope, down again after 10 mins or so. This time a wp_options repair doesn’t bring it up

Ok, so I’ve run anothe repair on wp_options and this let the site back up again. 1 minute later, it was down. Another repair lasted 1 more minute etc. It seems that something is continuously corrupting this table?

Deactivating plugins like crazy now

Mate, you’re genius! I just run a repair on the wp_options table and it immediately worked!

Thanks!

Why would the table become corrupted however? Server hiccup?

EDIT: It seems I spoke too soon. The site loaded once but after I reloaded after posting this message, it was down again ??

Can you check if you have <?php wp_footer(); ?> in your footer.php

Egh, I’d rather avoid doing that if possible. I’ve got a lot of them and some are a pain to re-enable. I’ll keep this as a last solution if I really need to use this plugin.

Yeap. Th funny thing is that it does not simply try to use 134Mb but rather it’s trying to allocate 606Mb and fails once it can’t get past 134

Isn’t there a way to make the plugin require less ram at any one point?