Preload cache and stop

Hello @fkoomek

Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to help!

Yes, the cache preload runs until the website is preloaded and then starts from the beginning. You can try adding a smaller amount of pages and increasing the interval.
This will ensure less server consumption. Alternatively, you can disable wp_cron and use wp-cli:
wp w3-total-cache pgcache_prime [–start=<start>] [–limit=<limit>]

The idea of the cache priming is that you always have fresh cache served for the visitors. There is a chance that the cache is purged if triggered by altering the pages adding or changing some plugin settings, adding a new post, etc. and you want the cache preload to kick in in this case.

I am not sure which settings are used for cache priming in yoru case, however, the default 10 pages per 900s should not cause a lot of server resource consumption.

I hope this helps!

Thanks!

Thank you for your help.
I understand but I would rather clear and preload the cache all at once in some given interval. So what I did now is that I disabled the priming of the cache automatically ind your plugin and instead I use this code:

/*w3tc preload manually*/
// Schedule the event
add_action('init', 'schedule_pgcache_prime');
function schedule_pgcache_prime() {
    // Get the current time in the Prague time zone
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Prague');
$current_time = current_time('timestamp', true);
// Get the current hour and minute separately
$current_hour = date('G', $current_time);
$current_minute = date('i', $current_time);
		
if (($current_hour == 0 && $current_minute >= 10) || ($current_hour == 1) || ($current_hour == 2 && $current_minute < 10)) {
        // Schedule the event to run every minute
        if (!wp_next_scheduled('w3_pgcache_prime')) {
        wp_schedule_event(time(), 'every_minute', 'w3_pgcache_prime');
		}
	   }
		else{
	// Unschedule the 'w3_pgcache_prime' event
wp_clear_scheduled_hook('w3_pgcache_prime');
	}
}

I am also calling w3tc_flush_all(); before the preload begins.
So, now the cache is cleared at 0:10, and then preload starts from 0:10-2:10 which is enough to finish it and then it stops. It’s true that I am using pretty aggressive preload 30pages/minute.

Radan

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by fkoomek.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by fkoomek.