[wp-testers] Slow admin pages in WP 2.6

[Jorge Garcia de Bustos]

I have experienced this issue as well.

The Win32 Apache in my development machine log shows this line:

[Wed Jul 30 22:16:38 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:
Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
C:\\WeAreON\\dailydooh.com\\htdocs\\wp-includes\\update.php on line
144

It might well be a red herring, but my script died inside
wp_update_plugins(), the function that checks plugin versions against
the latest versions hosted on WordPress.org.

Can anybody else confirm my impression that when this issue occurs,
it's normally at the beginning of a day, and all further attempts to
get admin pages are OK?

Thanks,

Jorge Garcia de Bustos

DJ Allyn wrote:
> Hi all,
> Has anyone had a problem with the 2.6 Admin running slower at times than
> previous versions with or without gears enabled. Perhaps slower isn't the
> term I'm looking for here but more like hesitating for several seconds
> before switching to another page like from "Plugins" to "Comments" for
> example. Once you're in a page like "Comments", things seem to move right
> along until your attempt to switch to another section of the Admin.
> Sometimes it's quick enough and sometimes it "hesitates" for several
> seconds.
> No error callouts, error logs are clean and I know it's not the server,
> upgrade procedure (strictly "by the book" manual upgrading) or plugin
> related (went the standard rounds with that) and doesn't seem to affect the
> actual site itself, just the Admin. I can't seem to find any reason for it
> and it only appeared to begin with the 2.6 release, not beta's. Just
> wondering if anyone else has noticed the same thing.
>
> I have been noticing it myself.  I am running a FIOS duplexed 30mbps
> connection and it seems to take about 15 - 20 seconds. to load the page.  My
> sites are located at DreamHost, which accounts for some of the speed lapse,
> but not that much.  The front page loads pretty good -- and I am using
> WP-Super Cache.  It is just the admin pages that seem to drag a bit.
>
> DJ Allyn