[wp-hackers] cron overload - help!

[Steve Taylor]

Thanks, that's what it needed! The default tasks popped back in fine.


2009/9/6 Casey Bisson <casey.bisson at gmail.com>:
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> Assuming you're not worried about other scheduled tasks[1], you can simply
> delete the row in your wp_options table with the meta_key = cron.
>
> --Casey
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> http://MaisonBisson.com
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> On Sep 5, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Steve Taylor wrote:
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>> 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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