Will make your blog and server unresponsive

  • Abhinav Singh

    (@imoracle)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    I just gave it a try and I am surprised to see how much of a load is it. Very poorly written. Why does a link checker be so tight on CPU that it can render server useless and unresponsive.

    Kindly fix, even if free, this is just an example of poor coding and practices.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Abhinav Singh.
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  • Biplav

    (@bplv)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello @imoracle

    Thank you for taking your time to rate the plugin.

    We are sorry for the inconvenience, we the WPMU Dev team have just recently started maintaining the plugin and we’re trying to improve every aspect of it.

    For the issue you’re facing you can try and minimize the load time with various settings, that can be found on the Advanced tab of the plugin settings ( wp-admin -> Settings -> Link Checker -> Advanced ).
    There you can allocate the server resource, load limit & max execution time which can reduce your sever load drastically.
    Other than that you can disabled the Run continuously while the Dashboard is open settings and only enable hourly checks.
    If you face any other issues you can open a support ticket here and we’ll be more than happy to look into it.

    Regards,
    Biplav.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Biplav.
    Thread Starter Abhinav Singh

    (@imoracle)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Unfortunately, primary issue was that it didn’t even gave me time to review the settings. Right after installing the plugin, my server went into a hot loop. I waited and waited, everything got slow, site stopped loading, at one point my SSH connection dropped and new SSH connections won’t establish. Monitoring showed server started running out of memory, not just CPU wise. I was forced to restart the server and immediately disable the plugin upon restart to get past it.

    Plugin Support Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support6)

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello @imoracle

    That’s totally understandable. If there are any server logs of that period that you could share with us, please let me know. 🙂

    Warm regards,
    Dimitris

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