petemmarchetto

Many thanks, Mark.

This may have been my fault in the end. I have a very image-heavy site, and ticked the box to check image files as if they were executables. I strongly suspect that the previous scan didn’t complete before the next scan was scheduled to start or something.

However, your mention of cron is interesting. In order to get another plugin to work – though, sadly, I failed – I wrote ‘alternative cron’ into the relevant WP php file. It could, perhaps, have something to do with that.

I can’t do the check you’ve requested given the site had 13 hours’ down time as it is courtesy of the host provider while I sorted it out and so, to be on the safe side, I’ve switched off automatic scans. If I switch ’em back on again to do the test you suggested, then if it does indeed all go haywire again, I’m being monitored and the host provider is likely to start jumping up and down on my head with greater intensity than previously.

For the moment, then, my sincere thanks for your help, and I’ll mark this one up as ‘resolved’. Lest anyone else stumble in here with the same issue, you may want to underline whether or not you think my scanning image files may indeed have been the issue in a follow-up post so others can see that.

My thanks, once again, for your help, Mark.

Oh yes, the question.

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What appears to be the issue here, (as far as you can tell), and what should I do, (aside from delete WordFence altogether), to stop it overloading?

I’m facing precisely the same issue, but with a bit of possible backstory.

My site has been plagued with spam emails promising fake designer clothing and the like. These emails seem unutterably pointless, they don’t even seem to lead to anything any mug could go to to pay the spammer and make the effort worth his time.

That’s the internet mentality for you.

I did notice that one of my 404 posts mentioned one of the products that frequently turns up in my spam emails.

All I can think is this.

Somehow, something has managed to get into the works and is fooling Tweetily into thinking there are posts where there are no posts.

I did a test again today, same thing. Tweetily has thirty or forty pages to choose from, so it seems a bit odd that it’s choosing a non-existent page every time. (Well, three in a row). That suggests to me either Tweetily thinks it has hundreds and hundreds of pages to choose from, most of which are spam, or somehow Tweetily itself has been subverted in this fashion.

Anyway, good to know I’m not alone here, Ruben. I know the Tweetily project is largely a labour of love and am grateful for the freebie gents, so not pushing hard here… but when you get a moment…

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Sample tweet: Pete Marchetto – 2014-02-07 12:42:58 https://tinyurl.com/pasov57

Many thanks, Jacob.

The browser I’m using, incidentally, is Google Chrome, and I should add that I have similarly large – and far larger than a few hundred in some instances – albums in Windows Live and Google’s Picassa that load up thumbnails without sapping memory in this way. I’m not sure how the routines differ, I’m a lemon when it comes to the underlying routines.