constantly executing the “admin-ajax.php” script

  • Resolved cdx

    (@cdx)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    Simple History is a great plugin but it was causing huge spikes in the number of our executions on our Siteground account causing us to receive a warning from SG. They dug into the statistics and found the following”

    Judging by the URL in the ~15,000 requests, it seems the plugin “simple-history” is constantly executing the “admin-ajax.php” script. Please review its settings or disable it to resolve the issue. Or you may prefer to contact the developers of the plugin to check if this notification service can be disabled because it is generating too many script executions on the shared hosting server.

    I had to deactivate Simple History from my sties. Why is Simple History issuing so many calls to the “admin-ajax.php” script and can we limit the frequency?

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  • Plugin Author P?r Thernstr?m

    (@eskapism)

    It does use AJAX requests to check if there are any new events. However this only happens if you have the Simple History page open. You must have had that page opened a looong time for that many number of requests to happen.

    But anyway, yes, a setting to disable the check for new events may be handy sometimes. I’ll take a look at it!

    Thread Starter cdx

    (@cdx)

    what is the Simple History page? do you mean the WP Dashboard? i do leave the dashboard open and never had any issues before i installed Simple History and don’t have any since i uninstalled it.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by cdx.
    Plugin Author P?r Thernstr?m

    (@eskapism)

    Yes, if you have the dashboard open Simple History will periodically check the log for new events. If you have a large amount events this could perhaps be a bit slow or at least there will be many requests.

    If this is a problem you can hide Simple History from the dashboard using the settings page. That way Simple History will only fetch the audit log when you actively go to the history log page.

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