High memory usage

  • Resolved jonte98

    (@jonte98)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    If we compare ACF to Metabox there is a huge difference in the memory usage.

    I tried installing most of Metabox addons and it showed no significant increase.

    When ACF was enabled it increased by 2MB in RAM. Which is a lot more RAM usage than Meta Box.

    Are you guys aware of that?

    If we have 100 visitors on the site and we use ACF it is using 200MB in RAM just from your plugin. It adds up really fast.

    I really dig your plugin and plan to buy the Pro version for my agency. But I hestitate because it will be eating a lot of resources.

    And native support for custom database tables for performance would be great for perfromance on top of this! Like Metabox has.

    Plugintests shows some interesting stuff too.

    Meta Box (49.5KB memory):

    https://plugintests.com/plugins/wporg/meta-box/latest

    —

    ACF (979KB memory):

    https://plugintests.com/plugins/wporg/advanced-custom-fields/latest

    That’s a huge difference.

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by jonte98.
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  • Hi there!

    ACF Support Team here. This forum is generally used by ACF users to help each other out.

    However, we would love to continue investigating and troubleshooting this issue, please can you create a ticket using our ?support form and we can look into it further.

    Plugin Contributor Iain Poulson

    (@polevaultweb)

    Hi @jonte98, ?Iain here, the product manager for ACF over at WP Engine.

    Thanks for raising these concerns. We have a performance task on our backlog and will add this to it, but we’ll look into the increased memory issue.

    When ACF was enabled it increased by 2MB in RAM. Which is a lot more RAM usage than Meta Box.

    Is this on the frontend of the site or in the wp-admin?

    Will keep you posted.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Iain Poulson.
    Thread Starter jonte98

    (@jonte98)

    @polevaultweb It’s site-wide. I can’t however see what it looks like when I’m logged out. I’m using Query Monitor to measure.

    I’d like to let you know that saving everything regarding ACF in a custom db table would help performance. And conditionally load the plugin code to only when it’s used.

    It seems like it’s loading the entire plugin site-wide right now.

    On the front-end, it’s only required for the code that picks up the values from the DB to run for example. And all the back-end stuff is mainly required only on new posts and the ACF related setting pages.

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