lesbell

You issued a plugin update which I have installed today.

I don’t know whether it is co-incidental but I added a new post afterwards and observed the CPU usage.

It was lower and did not reach 100% as before.

Hopefully it will remain lower.

Looks like I will just have to disable sending of Tweets, make them manually at Twitter and just use the plugin widget to display them if no solution can be found.

Shame because it defeats the main object of the plugin which otherwise works very well.

DB is optimised regularly using WP-Optimize plugin.

Here is a screenshot video of the CPU spike:

Increases when I hit the publish button and then goes red and off the scale. Drops right back down again after that.

Here is a screenshot of plugins in use:

https://awesomescreenshot.com/0fd5o3n6a2

I’ve tried it with all plugins disabled except your’s and CPU spike still happens.

Yes, the image is in the Tweet – here is a random example:

https://twitter.com/LJB_Les/status/698956326966317057

Hi Joe,

I make a new post in WordPress with the photo and caption text below it.

Then I just hit the publish button and it gets added to website and sent to Twitter. That’s when the CPU spike occurs.

Hi Joe,

Server has Normalizer class available in PHP

Thanks for your reply.

Here are my answers to your questions:

1) Tweets are never more than 140 characters and a photo – average maximum file size 300kb – I have tested with only a few words of text and no photo and same amount of resources are used.

2) Not sure if server has Normalizer class available in PHP – I’ll check that.

3) I am using WP to Twitter alone.

4) Site currently has 86 posts.

5) WP to Twitter is not in debugging mode

Hi Joe,

I contacted my web host who have checked their systems and say there are no problems with cURL on the server.

Les Bell

Hi Joe,

Do you think you could clarify “not much” please, so I can confidently know how much resources the plugin should be using.

Les Bell

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your reply. When I publish a post there is virtually no delay and the post is sent to Twitter straight away.

I always check immediately afterwords and the post is there.

But, what is happening is that at the time of publishing a post a CPU load spike occurs to over 100% and that sometimes causes a problem.

Les Bell

Hi Andrew,

This problem seems to have gone away with your latest update installed yesterday.

Les Bell

Hi David,

I can’t provide a screenshot as the problem was cleared when I disabled and re-enabled the plugin as described above.

It has happened on more than one website though and the circumstances were the same each time.

I can’t really simulate it either as the only plugin I use of comparable size (I think) is Wordfence Security and that updated without any problems.

Looks like I will have to wait until there is another UpdraftPlus update and see what happens then.

Les Bell

Hi David,

I await your response on the new thread I opened.

Les Bell