[wp-hackers] cron overload - help!

Steve Taylor steve at sltaylor.co.uk
Sun Sep 6 02:09:36 UTC 2009


My hook never took a parameter. Do I need to pass an empty $args array
or something?


2009/9/6 John Blackbourn <johnbillion+wp at gmail.com>:
> Are you passing an $args parameter with wp_clear_scheduled_hook()?
> There's an outstanding bug that means hooks with parameters aren't
> cleared with wp_clear_scheduled_hook(). See
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10468 .
>
> 2009/9/6 Steve Taylor <steve at sltaylor.co.uk>:
>> I experimented with wp_schedule_event() on a site a short while ago,
>> without luck. I found another solution, but recently I noticed that my
>> Media Temple GPU usage has flagged the wp-cron.php on that site as
>> taking up about 25% of the total processing time for all my sites.
>>
>> I used http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cron-view/, and sure
>> enough, my experiment has inadvertantly left a HUGE number of
>> scheduled events for that hook.
>>
>> When I try to run wp_clear_scheduled_hook( 'my_hook' ), the page
>> doesn't seem to load. The site's running OK, but I really need a way
>> of clearing all these events out. I'm not sure if
>> wp_unschedule_event() is viable - and I've heard that
>> wp_clear_scheduled_hook() is just a wrapper for this anyway.
>>
>> Thanks for any tips...
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